Tuesday 21 September, 2021
Six in 10 people have had their mode of transport damaged by potholes.
Tipperary Town may share the name of its county, but the standard of its roads is “no advert for the place” says one local.
Ford aims to use crowdsourcing technology to give you advance warnings.
A national survey finds that 44% of regional roads in Ireland have extensive surface defects, while 31% of local roads have structural issues.
The company patented a method that would allow cars to detect them and help create a database.
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New research has developed a system of detecting costly road damage before it occurs.
Can we get him over to Ireland please?
A local election candidate is calling for the re-introduction of the Local Improvement Scheme to fix roads like this all over the county.
A new poll by AA revealed that 40 per cent think the government is not treating road safety as a priority.
The government is investing €10.6 million in the scheme but communities will have to come up with the rest of the €14 million to repair the roads.
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Rural Ireland is experiencing a demise, with empty shop buildings, damaged roads and a lack of essential services. Action needs to be taken now or we could see whole parts of the country uninhabited, writes John Verling.
A spokesperson from the HSA said that the issue wasn’t one of “red tape and bureaucracy”, but of safety.
The Transport Minister said that they needed to take “their responsibilities a bit more seriously”.
The Minister for Transport has said that local authorities are to place a greater focus on maintaining Ireland’s roads. Will it be enough?
One council engineer admits that limited funding means “we are stretched beyond breaking point to carry out even basic repairs”.
This is the road travelled by one TheJournal.ie reader every day is referred to locally as ‘The road to Baghdad’. Can you beat it?
New app Street Bump allows drivers to automatically report the road hazards like pot holes to the authorities.
The numbers of punctures rose over the last twelve months – and potholes are to blame, the AA has said.
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The new website, aimed at identifying ‘non-emergency issues’ like potholes and illegal dumping, has attracted hundreds of complaints since it launched last week.
The breakdown assistance company says motorists paying high taxes on petrol shouldn’t have to tolerate poor road conditions.
There’s a deficit of over €4bn in local government coffers which are going to hit basic services if not addressed by next government.
