This is from an Irish Independent article. Link here for those who subscribe to their Unison.ie web pages, but for those who do not, here's some of the article:
DUBLIN'S new-look O'Connell Street is to be sandblasted because buses are skidding dangerously on its shiny granite surface.
Dublin Bus has raised concerns about the street, which only recently emerged from the chaos of Luas construction and a multi-million euro regeneration project.
Now the city council has admitted there is a problem and says it will have to sandblast the eye-catching granite surface.
The bus company wrote to the council after two recent incidents. In one, a bus skidded as soon as the driver hit the brakes.
Dublin Bus raised serious concerns about the safety of the road's surface in wet weather.
Who in blazes is letting these self-styled road designers loose onto O'Connell Street? It's a good thing that the KD-class isn't still around, otherwise they'd end up on their sides (and they were bad enough on wet asphalt). And who in blazes authorised the blatant "government pork" project of putting granite onto a street surface?? (Granite is for tomb-stones, not street surfaces...)