Please sign this petition to improve the (dire!) pothole situation: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634995 Please share it with your friends, etc. The more signatures the better.
Short of repairing pot holes on the motorway network, isn’t it down to local councils to maintain the roads and while central government may dish out more money to local councils to fund it, what’s to say they will use the money for that or just spunk it away on another bloody cycle path!
Be better if there was an easier way to claim damages to your wheels/tyres etc… Might make them think twice about leaving potholes so big round our way people swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid them.
The roads around my way are not fit for purpose. I’ve signed it not that it will do any good, a thirty second mention in parliament if we’re lucky and nothing being done.
Heard on the radio yesterday that the AA logged 52,000 breakdown call-outs during the month of April to cars left stranded by serious pothole damage. The number that were damaged but driveable must be many times more than that. And that's before we get onto the risk to life for motorcyclists. https://highways-news.com/pothole-breakdowns-on-the-road-increase-by-29-says-aa/ Another issue that doesn't get much attention is the deteriorating state of road markings. I've driven on many roads in various parts of the country where centre lines, give-way dashes and lane divisions were completely rubbed out. You don't realise how vital road line-markings are to safety til they aren't there and you come to a junction or a busy roundabout and have no idea where you should be or where you have to go or stop; or when on the open road, whether you're allowed to overtake or not. Then there's road-side signs. They find the money to put up illuminated mobile finger-wagging signs about not dropping litter or driving when tired but many vital fixed hazard warning signs are so faded as to be illegible or missing altogether. There's a road near me with an exceedingly dangerous T junction. The approach road is long and straight and then there's a blind summit about sixty or seventy yards from the point where you have to give way to priority traffic crossing in front of you. The red triangle give way sign has fallen down and the rectangular written sign below it is obscured by bushes. If you don't know the road and you go over the summit at 60 mph there's no way you'll stop in time. On the opposite side of the priority road where you're supposed to give way, there's a dry stone wall. It has been rebuilt three times (at the landowner's expense) in the last 12 months where drivers have overshot the junction not realising it's there and ploughed through the wall. Luckily, as yet no one has T-boned another car or bike that happened to be traveling along the priority road at the time, but it's a matter of when, not if. I avoid that junction like the plague on my bike.
Signed it, not that I expect it to make any difference. And all governments are cnuts, so don’t expect any difference if anyone else gets in.
You can make a claim but it’s a ballache and the amount of aggro involved isn’t worth the few hundred quid you’ll get back.
All this insane bicycle BS came directly from the current Tories, spearheaded by the Blond liar. I saw a pic yesterday of a new road layout which has a two-way cycle lane 'twice as wide as the actual road', a bus lane in the middle of the road, double yellow lines, a partial filter lane and a path for pedestrians. Total cost £10,000,000. I'm not against cycle lanes, but there has to be some common sense...
Read the other day it would cost £14 billion and take 11 years to repair all the potholes in the UK. On average a road is properly resurfaced once every 116 years so if you see it happening then celebrate as neither you nor your children will see that road resurfaced ever again.
They’re actually resurfacing a whole road near me, properly scraping all the tarmac off and starting again, raised manhole covers while they do it. Took me completely by surprise yesterday. And they’re doing it at night, which makes a lot more sense. Someone must have had a bump on the head.
With my current experience at the minute with a bad back in the Land Rover, they bloody well hurt even more when unvoidable. We're too busy feeding the rest of the world first with the taxpayers money and that'll never change.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After all the high cost of those cycle lanes, why indeed was that cyclist riding on the main road? What would be the result of being caught riding our Ducati’s in the cycle lane? In my neck of the woods millions have been spent on cycle lanes on the nearby Melton Road and in the last two years I have seen a grand total of half a dozen cyclists using them.At the same time the main roads in the area are in an appalling state.
Because Boris Johnson granted cyclists priority over cars, presumably on the orders of his wife. I imagine he thought that with a little coercive legislation we'd all turn into obedient Ocado ordering, work-from-home, fifteen minute city-dwelling eco supplicants. In reality there'll just be a huge increase in road rage and accidents. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if local authorities haven't been ordered not to repair potholes to dissuade people from driving in the first place. Knowing they will never be able to provide either the grid power nor the charging points to enable us all to go electric and enjoy the warm virtuous feeling that comes from exporting your carbon footprint to the third world, perhaps it has been decided the easier solution would be to allow the road network to decay beyond use so we can't drive anywhere. It would certainly be much cheaper.
They have resurfaced a road in the village where I live. It wasn't great but it's in the village and hardly used. Yes, a councillor does live there. Meanwhile, the A428 which is the busy bypass for said road looks like the runway at Mariupol Airport. Go figure
