Pot hole Crisis

[T14086]

Perhaps reporting potholes is the answer? :chin:

Isn't that someone else's job? Like when the electric goes off or skytv goes down you don't phone them but go on line asking what's wrong and is anyone else the same

In the last few years I have reported a few serious potholes, and they have all been fixed shortly afterwards. Also, a bit of a tangent this one, but there was a hedge near me that meant it was very hard to see to pull out in to a busy road, and it had been like that for years. It was so bad it was causing traffic jams. I reported it recently and within a week they had told the owner to cut it.

I was told by local council that the money is so tight they wont be cutting grass/hedges etc and the big hole is the next street (the drain has actually fallen into the hole) won't be getting repaired for a while.....shouldn't of sold all the council houses and given themselves big bonuses then they would have a regular (Rent) income for public services. That didn't go down well...but 4 months later hole was fixed and the overgrown country path at back of my house was trimmed with a blunt samurai sword, still the birds can use the branches for their nests...luckily for them the workers left them there

 

[Adrian Bravo]

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

 

[Ziggy122]

i'll report one that enters a roundabout - to the point the road markings have also gone

i'll see how long before its repaired

Ziggy

 

[custard]

As said,reporting them is the way to deal with them
I say this as someone who has now been in pain for 15 months due to a pothole!
check your local councils set up as to what ways they accept reports
I know with Edinburgh you can tweet things like potholes to the relevant depts

 

[306maxi]

As said,reporting them is the way to deal with them
I say this as someone who has now been in pain for 15 months due to a pothole!
check your local councils set up as to what ways they accept reports
I know with Edinburgh you can tweet things like potholes to the relevant depts

Yeah, but if you report it and it gets fixed then you can't post on forums about how the potholes dont get fixed.

 

[custard]

Yeah, but if you report it and it gets fixed then you can't post on forums about how the potholes dont get fixed.

well my tale has many what ifs
had the council(pushing to be a world class cycling city)gritted the main cycle route,then I wouldn't have been on that stretch of road
had the taxi driver valued my life vs a few seconds,then i wouldn't have come off
and the final what if,had someone reported the pot hole,then i would have had a claim against the council

 

[StevenRB45]

Tbf road works happen around here...there is resurfacing going on just down the road this week...however its done in such an arse over tit way its pointless..roads that wouldn't look out of place in Baghdad get left, others have been resurfaced 3 times in 5 years. That and what is the point if resurfacing and putting down speed bumps at the same time???

 

[jatkinson]

Ive reported a Few on that website , Annoys me seeing the state of the road ,

i aggree with chris , If every one didnt pay the Road tax , they would not be able to fine every one , , and when so many people stop paying it , they will soon get a grip and start fixing the roads.

i wouldnt be to botherd , but im paying £120 for 6 month ,.. to drive on pothole filled roads,.. ,

 

[306maxi]

Ive reported a Few on that website , Annoys me seeing the state of the road ,

i aggree with chris , If every one didnt pay the Road tax , they would not be able to fine every one , , and when so many people stop paying it , they will soon get a grip and start fixing the roads.

i wouldnt be to botherd , but im paying £120 for 6 month ,.. to drive on pothole filled roads,.. ,

But road tax DOES NOT GO TOWARDS FIXING ROADS

 

[maddogmorg]

With my tinfoil hat on i could suggest the run down of the roads is a deliberate move to encourage support for privatisation of the roads.

What it really comes down to is that roads have not been getting the proper maintanance they deserve for far too long. I can't think of many roads around here that were properly relayed. instead the best we've got is a skim across the top.

And when the country fell into recession even less money was put towards roads, and temporary patches prevail especially with the harsher winters of the past few years. Or is it the composition has changed to a less rugged material?

 

[AgnessGP]

Nothing is ever straight forward with politics and money. it is never a case of "so £££ much will be spent here, "this will be spent here". There is always something the public don't know about. Why the secrecy? We live in this country together. tell us if there is no money to fix the roads and tell us why and what we can do to ensure there is money (excluding paying for holes personally).

The country provides an infrastructure for its people, look after it.

Underneath all the polictics and ********, it is really just primary school maths

Bit of a narrow minded view I suppose, but there is no real need, that I can see, for things to be so unclear.

 

[sludgeguts]

Had a lot of work in the countryside today & many of the country roads are in a right old state - not only the potholes but loads of flooding as well.
Got me thinking. When I were a lad playing marbles in the street, they would always roll towards the gutter and gutters always had a slight fall towards each drain.
I was given to understand that roads were made with a crown and a (slightly recessed) gutter either side - but looking at the roads today, it seems they are fairly flat side to side with no recessed gutters.
Consequently, any water tends to gather in puddles in the middle. Any that even makes it to the sides simply forms a puddle rather than running away.
The upshot of this seems to be the formation of potholes in the middle of roads.

 

[Ziggy122]

around me im finding its the middle of each lane where the tyres are running, so the big crazing is turning into pot holes

The join for the 2sides is magically developed pot holes

I owt to get a decent video of 1 road near me where the road is about 1mile long and the amount of poor quality is shocking....

Ziggy

 

[ChrisUK]

Nothing is ever straight forward with politics and money. it is never a case of "so £££ much will be spent here, "this will be spent here". There is always something the public don't know about. Why the secrecy? We live in this country together. tell us if there is no money to fix the roads and tell us why and what we can do to ensure there is money (excluding paying for holes personally).

The country provides an infrastructure for its people, look after it.

Underneath all the polictics and ********, it is really just primary school maths

Bit of a narrow minded view I suppose, but there is no real need, that I can see, for things to be so unclear.

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!

 

[306maxi]

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!

The public sector in this country is a joke, the worst couple of jobs I've had in the UK were both public sector, one was for the county council and the other for a well known charity, both were run in a rather feckless manner.

 

[kimi1984]

It's a matter that's sore to my heart. I went out in the marea a couple of weeks ago, got a few hundred yards down the road and hit a real deep pothole. I was doing 40 @ the time & the impact was so great it cracked my windscreen! Few people have said that I should claim off the council, but having read through the paperwork they will get put of this one easily. :thumbdown:

Interestingly though if you drive from Surrey into Sussex there is a real difference in road quality!

 

[306maxi]

It's a matter that's sore to my heart. I went out in the marea a couple of weeks ago, got a few hundred yards down the road and hit a real deep pothole. I was doing 40 @ the time & the impact was so great it cracked my windscreen! Few people have said that I should claim off the council, but having read through the paperwork they will get put of this one easily. :thumbdown:

Interestingly though if you drive from Surrey into Sussex there is a real difference in road quality!

Why oh why do people not claim?!?!?!?! if the road damages your car then claim!!!!! What incentive is there for the councils to fix the roads if no one reports potholes or claims for the damage they do? :bang:

 

[kimi1984]

Because depending on your council claiming can be a right ball ache! It's also worth noting that once a pot hole has been marked you can no longer claim any damage off of it. That said they are meant to repair it within a specific time under duty of care mind. :thumbdown:

 

[kimi1984]

To claim via Surrey county council you need to send in a picture of the damage, a picture of the pothole, a copy of your mot, your tax disc and your v5 to prove ownership. When you work full time and have a family to look after you just haven't got a time to do it.

 

[kimi1984]

I think a majority of the problem lies in the actual roads themselves. Go back 10-15 odd years ago, I remember when whole roads were shut and resurfaced for any damage. You just don't get that nowadays. A little highways agency tipper comes out with some macadem in the back, they patch it up & bugger off. Water gets underneath it then bam, its back again.