Pot hole Crisis

[kimi1984]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwX6BQHb6dY&feature=youtube_gdata_player how potholes come about.

 

[ChrisUK]

It doesn't matter what local authority you have. You basically invoice them with a covering letter explaining what damage was caused, where it was caused and picture evidence of the defect(s).

If they refuse to pay you then all you need to do is go to small claims court 9/10 times they will pay before court (as long as you've got a legitimate claim of course).

 

[pooroldcodger]

I think half the problem is there's such few people in charge of such a biblical amount of money. No one can comprehend the figures involved.

There's a open statistics website and I tried a couple of queries on it and the sums of cash spent on what seems to be unneeded vague "area's" was unreal.

I think half the problem is when they outsource ANYTHING to private companies on contracts they just get ripped right off. The only involvement I've had was to sell power supplies for radios to a local military unit. They made a mistake on the paper work and paid us 10x too much for each unit shipped and thought that price was OK as another company put in a higher bid!!... :bang: 1000% profit margin FTW!

There is an unfortunate combination of lack of expertise, naivety, and lack of incentive because it's not the individual's own money they are spending.
You are spot on Chris. Any company that gets a Govt. project is set fair.
"Corfu for Christmas! " as Brian Potter would say.

 

[Ziggy122]

well it seems that big pot hole has been filled with a neat-ish square of fresh tarmac

yet the section they repaired is pepper potted anyway with no road markings?

I wonder how many more pot holes i can declare to get fixed?
Hey i might have my own rumble road to test for falling doors or trim!

Ziggy

 

[Adrian Bravo]

One out of the three I reported was sorted by Tuesday. I will post if the other two get done.

I reported a couple of bad ones on my route home from work, I will post here if they get sorted.