https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56590518 The number of potholes filled in by councils in England and Wales has increased during the past year to almost 1.7 million, a survey suggests. The Asphalt Industry Alliance said this figure - up 200,000 from 1.5 million in 2019-20 - equated to one being fixed every 19 seconds. The total amount spent by local authorities on filling in potholes in 2020-1 was £93.6m, it added. The government said it was working to ensure "smoother, safer journeys". Love the way they make out like this is something to be amazed by/proud of. £93.6 million divided by 343 local authorities is a measly 270 grand a year, and it tells!
It’s an abysmal state of affairs. Filling the potholes isn’t the answer as they just break up again in a matter of weeks if not days. The potholes round here are seriously dangerous.
Strangely enough i just put two new tyres on the van this monday gone, as one got damaged on the sidewall through a road hole, question is what do i do next with a claim. they were only £107 for the pair but that's not the point as i spend a lot of money on roadfund licence per annum.
They need to be filling in 4 or 5 holes every 19 seconds. Recently had our ‘on a rural bus route’ estate road patched by a contractor selling themselves as ‘patch specialists’. Lasted 3 weeks before their patches started to break up under the 3 buses an hour, 7 days a week, traffic. Hampshire Highways are a joke. Still not as bad as West Berks and their god awful cycle lane scheme that has reduced the width of the A4 through Thatcham and Newbury. Sodding cycle lane is not fit for purpose, the concrete ridges delineating the cycle path from the main carriageway, prevents it from being swept, it’s absolutely filthy. Andy
And that implies that the 270k per year is actually spent fixing pot holes. Of course, that may be where the money is accounted to, but it will be spent on crews driving around in circles aimlessly and then stopping (many times) for tea. And another part of it will be spent on awareness programs for the staff - so that they can have a greater affinity with the transgender homosexuals amongst them. And then it will be time for another tea break.
It’s your general taxation that pays for infrastructure maintenance, paying your road fund licence stops your vehicle from being seized by law enforcement should it be found on a highway.
They fill them. And they sink within a few days. it’s like putting a plaster over a 50 cal gun shot wound. One of our contractors is heavily involved in German road building and reckons the U.K. knowingly lay shite roads. The prep work is crap and the thickness of the tarmac is also substandard. He reckoned that our rigs use far less level sensors than those in Germany as well. Which is why newly laid U.K. roads are bumpy from the get go (same problem they had at Silverstone). the roads down here in Kent are like an raf bombing range. I reckon a lot of these contractors do a wank job so they can keep relaying it.
Someone's just pointed me in the general direction of Surrey County Council, i'll give it a go with an email & nothing to lose.
I think you have to be pretty quick off the Mark, gather loads of evidence to support your claim, date, time, photos etc. I also heard that if it’s an unreported pot hole then the council claim they were unaware and so not liable, if it’s been reported and they know about it but haven’t fixed it then you’ve a better chance?
I’ve seen them repairing them round my way, just pull up in a little van, open a sack of tarmac dump it in the hole (don’t bother getting the water out first) and then pack it down with a ft sq of ply on the end of a stick, job done. It’s probably supposed to be a temporary repair to stop drivers claiming for new wheels and tyres but they never seem to come back to do the job properly. Either that or their other trick is just to put up a folding sign by the road with “caution temporary road surface” on it and leave it for months.....
I've photographs with the date stamped on it now i'm just waiting for the report from the tyre people, also the pothole wasn't redlined marked on the day in question so maybe we've a chance.
Yep. The ability to spin statistics in order to cover up incompetence and graft is one of the few things the UK is good at, along with our only other growth industries of watching/fining people in ever more inventive ways and property price inflation. This country is futterly ucked.
The reason they’re having to fill so many is because they do such a wank job of the roads and repairs in the first place. It’s embarrassing.
I cannot remember where I saw it, but it was brilliant! Cant get a pot hole filled? Paint it up like a Twig and berries and they will be along in 2 days to hide it! I have to admit that the roads here are generally very smooth. I think it is because we have so little freezing temps. Besides shit work, constant freezing and thawing will ruin any road. One problem we do have is worn out roads... if they do not get potholes they are NEVER re done. we have roads where they almost seem to have treads because the sand and oil that makes up the 2/3 that is not the stones in the asphalt has worn away. But no hole, let it ride. Very little grip in those areas. But that is only down in Atlanta. I also did some paving up north when I was younger... then moved to NC. we were doing driveways and nobody understood that the actual road is the stones. The Asphalt is just to keep the water off them. The stones do the real work. I wanted perfect stones... they said we will fix the un evenness with the asphalt...
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