Potholes
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HarryVegas
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Same up here in Tyneside. It's what happens when you have a government absolutely slashing council funding year after year for over a decade.
Colgates_shaving_foam
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coluka
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They’ve probably worked out that some folk will struggle to be able to afford the repairs to their cars if they don’t fund the councils to repair the pot holes, thereby leading to less cars on the road at any one time and therefore a drop in emissions too, so it is clearly an environmentally friendly practice, whats not to like!!!
asredastheycome
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Didn't think you had any potholes down South Laughing. Sunak had to come to Darlo to find one.
Sunak accused of ‘complete re-hash’ of pothole announcement
The Prime Minister sought to focus on fixing Britain’s roads as he faced questions over whether he was out of touch as he campaigned in Darlington.
www.independent.co.uk
Laughing
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We have loads. The road into dunstable is like a bloody farm track.Didn't think you had any potholes down South Laughing. Sunak had to come to Darlo to find one.
Sunak accused of ‘complete re-hash’ of pothole announcement
The Prime Minister sought to focus on fixing Britain’s roads as he faced questions over whether he was out of touch as he campaigned in Darlington.
Billy69_uk
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This country is fast becoming a third world nation.
Crumbling infrastructure, an un-elected prime minister leading an unaccountable government, making strikes and protests illegal, manipulated national broadcaster, rampant inflation, food shortages, rich getting richer and the poor being hung out to dry.
let them eat turnips.
Crumbling infrastructure, an un-elected prime minister leading an unaccountable government, making strikes and protests illegal, manipulated national broadcaster, rampant inflation, food shortages, rich getting richer and the poor being hung out to dry.
let them eat turnips.
Alwaysaborolad
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Same everywhere mate, I live in the lake district, and most of the roads in and out of towns and villages are a joke. worse in the winter when you cant see them until its too late.
Roads near me are in an atrocious state as well. Think it's universally bad all round the country.
Not surprised because we have slashed the budget to fill them in everywhere but the way we do it seems to be wrong anyway. Some of the worse spots are where they have to repeatedly fill the same spot and the surrounding area because patching doesn't work permanently. It leaves cracks and it crumbles.
Not surprised because we have slashed the budget to fill them in everywhere but the way we do it seems to be wrong anyway. Some of the worse spots are where they have to repeatedly fill the same spot and the surrounding area because patching doesn't work permanently. It leaves cracks and it crumbles.
sweet_left_foot
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and yet, the roads in Wales are always markedly better as I criss-cross the border from Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire.
bungydinsdale
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Yes, also a big problem in most of New Zealand, lack of infrastructure spending to blame.
Cardiffdaffs
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No potholes down south.Didn't think you had any potholes down South Laughing. Sunak had to come to Darlo to find one.
Sunak accused of ‘complete re-hash’ of pothole announcement
The Prime Minister sought to focus on fixing Britain’s roads as he faced questions over whether he was out of touch as he campaigned in Darlington.
Our roads are absolutely shocking in Hertfordshire. The snow then the wet weather has taken it toll and this Government has starved county councils with so much money that they havent got the budget to sort it.It is terrible cycling around here and there will be nasty accidents. My sister lost a tyre in this hole last week Hidden by rainwater.
asredastheycome
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Like Sunak and Fat Ben.
Andy_W
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I dunno, you need a decent road to have a pothole, don't you?
i.e for it to be considered a pothole, you would need to be driving on a level and consistent surface prior, but I just don't see where that "road" is? Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can have a go?
In all seriousness though, the roads are ****. I was considering getting a "sportier" car, but this is one of the major factors in holding me back, as mad as that should sound.
The roads are always bad after winter, which is fair enough, but they're worse than normal, that's for sure.
It's largely because they keep making half-assed repairs when it's wet, they need to invest in some road planers, and resurface full sections, as sticking plasters don't work, they've never worked, and this ultimately results in paying more for something worse.
Also, the councils just let the utility companies dig up all the roads left, right and centre, when they should be promoting technology which avoids the need for such excavation in most instances. The liability for the road surface (2 years) after such repairs or new installations is not long enough. The repairs should have a design life of 5 years and a required maintenance life of 10 years, with money held as retention for such.
There was a guideline in 2020 that the guarantee on street works would be increase to 5 years, but the government went against it, and kept it at 2 years, which isn't even largely enforced.
We do have another (massive) problem mind, that a lot of the water, sewer, gas, electric and telecom infrastructure is well out of date (some of it over 100 years old), and beyond its design life, so it's only going to fail more and more, which means more and more repairs and digging. A lot of people don't know this, but some of the water mains are made out of asbestos cement, and a loads of towns are relying on ductile iron pipes which are over 100 years old. Of course, loads of people still have lead water services from the mains etc, these all need to come out, and will be coming out.
i.e for it to be considered a pothole, you would need to be driving on a level and consistent surface prior, but I just don't see where that "road" is? Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can have a go?
In all seriousness though, the roads are ****. I was considering getting a "sportier" car, but this is one of the major factors in holding me back, as mad as that should sound.
The roads are always bad after winter, which is fair enough, but they're worse than normal, that's for sure.
It's largely because they keep making half-assed repairs when it's wet, they need to invest in some road planers, and resurface full sections, as sticking plasters don't work, they've never worked, and this ultimately results in paying more for something worse.
Also, the councils just let the utility companies dig up all the roads left, right and centre, when they should be promoting technology which avoids the need for such excavation in most instances. The liability for the road surface (2 years) after such repairs or new installations is not long enough. The repairs should have a design life of 5 years and a required maintenance life of 10 years, with money held as retention for such.
There was a guideline in 2020 that the guarantee on street works would be increase to 5 years, but the government went against it, and kept it at 2 years, which isn't even largely enforced.
We do have another (massive) problem mind, that a lot of the water, sewer, gas, electric and telecom infrastructure is well out of date (some of it over 100 years old), and beyond its design life, so it's only going to fail more and more, which means more and more repairs and digging. A lot of people don't know this, but some of the water mains are made out of asbestos cement, and a loads of towns are relying on ductile iron pipes which are over 100 years old. Of course, loads of people still have lead water services from the mains etc, these all need to come out, and will be coming out.
TheYorkshireTerrier
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Cumberland Road in Linthorpe is brutal, feels like I'm driving on the surface of the moon.
