State of the Roads
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Ah, I've seen that elsewhere and clearly didn't read the thread fully. It's been mentioned many times I'm sure; it certainly isn't my tip.
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I’ve noticed they don’t even fill in all the potholes that they mark now.
I can only assume it’s because it’s different teams. The regular crew is just a transit which tips some tarmac into a wheel barrow which the chap dumps into the hole and jumps up and down a bit to compact - these repairs shouldn’t even be allowed, total waste of taxpayers money as they just get washed out by the heavy rain immediately.
And anything more serious which requires cutting out and properly patching needs the proper crew who appear as often as Santa Claus.
I can only assume it’s because it’s different teams. The regular crew is just a transit which tips some tarmac into a wheel barrow which the chap dumps into the hole and jumps up and down a bit to compact - these repairs shouldn’t even be allowed, total waste of taxpayers money as they just get washed out by the heavy rain immediately.
And anything more serious which requires cutting out and properly patching needs the proper crew who appear as often as Santa Claus.
How about not having a sig at all?
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I quite liked it when the guy used to mark them out with a giant penis painted round them, so they were forced to come out and sort it for decency.
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So I’ve just got a notification on my locked iPhone.. did you know you can use w3w to mark the location of potholes!
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The headline accompanying this is that there's potholes "waist deep". That's a bit of a stretch, (no pun intended), but he's trying his best to sell it.
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He looks like he's coming out of the hole tbh, sure he's not a morlock?
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I was rather unimpressed with the number of potholes on the M40 yesterday. Local authority maintained roads I sort of understand the maintenance issues but Highways Agency? That’s just evidence of how badly run the country is currently.
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I sent that link to gavster just the other day - our parents live near Chichester.
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Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 7:33 pmI sent that link to gavster just the other day - our parents live near Chichester.
Good to know they still get out and are active
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nuttinnew wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 8:50 pmSundayjumper wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 7:33 pmI sent that link to gavster just the other day - our parents live near Chichester.
Good to know they still get out and are active
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More than a few times on company meeting trips, I've been stuck approaching a bin-lid size and deep pothole, with nowhere to go, at >60mph and all you can do is just grit your teeth in case it destroys your wheel and tyre.
Absolutely fucking atrocious.
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Yep. And when the HA became Highways England a few years ago they were given a ruck load of extra cash purely for maintenance. But they've become another inefficient public behemoth and I imagine their contractors are taking the piss as they do with all other public behemoths
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I visited Cornwall last week and some of the potholes on the motorways are proper wince inducing. When the time comes to repair them you just know we'll have six weeks/months of endless 50mph limits
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You can thank unions and undereducated health and safety knobends for that.Swervin_Mervin wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 11:47 amYep. And when the HA became Highways England a few years ago they were given a ruck load of extra cash purely for maintenance. But they've become another inefficient public behemoth and I imagine their contractors are taking the piss as they do with all other public behemoths
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Surprisingly we were there last week and I didn't spot any potholes
In fact, it was total bliss - all through rural Worcestershire and the north Cotswolds for a few days and then southern end of Cornwall. First road back into Trafford and I'd forgotten how bad it was, with cars swerving around the lane to avoid the potholes.
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The roads round me seem to be dissolving in this rain we've had for the last week tbh.
Every morning there's a new big hole on my route to work. I ended up unlocking the forks on my bike after hitting one so hard I bit my tongue .
Every morning there's a new big hole on my route to work. I ended up unlocking the forks on my bike after hitting one so hard I bit my tongue .
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That pretty fairly describes what happened in Ross on Wye a couple of weeks ago - the roads disintegrated in a rain storm:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d4vd4nrxko
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d4vd4nrxko