Change to pothle repair contracts.

[gaz]

Actually you have just prompted me to remember some really bad ones but I'm not sure if the road is a private road as there often seems to be potholes in it and big ones. Is there a way of finding out on-line who maintains a road?

On fill that hole it knows which council looks after each road, will it know if the road is private and can it report it to the correct person?
Only one way to find out.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Actually you have just prompted me to remember some really bad ones but I'm not sure if the road is a private road as there often seems to be potholes in it and big ones. Is there a way of finding out on-line who maintains a road?

IIRC if it has street lighting it is council if not private. Not sure if that is too much of a generalization though.

 

[summerdays]

Street lighting isn't full proof - a friend lives in a privately owned road and they have street lighting (rather weirdly the council came and fixed a pothole in it).

 

[gaz]

IIRC if it has street lighting it is council if not private. Not sure if that is too much of a generalization though.

Far too much of a generalization. Lots of sections of busy A roads have no street lighting. They aren't privetly owned.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Far too much of a generalization. Lots of sections of busy A roads have no street lighting. They aren't privetly owned.

Fair point. I stand corrected.

 

[summerdays]

This is the road ... goes behind a pub and is a nice cut through (excluding potholes) to a friend of mine who lives near by.



Even from the aerial shot you can tell it is a different road surface!

 

[Red Light]

There's a really good iPhone app and probably one for Android too from Fill That Hole. You take a photo of the hole, it geotags its location, gives you some drop down menus and text boxes to classify it and then ships it off to Fill That Hole. No messing around with maps or uploading photos from a camera.

 

[ohnovino]

Is there a way of finding out on-line who maintains a road?

If the road has a normal road name sign (must be a better phrase for that?) then the council look after it. If the sign says on it "Unadopted" then they don't.

 

[Theseus]

If the road has a normal road name sign (must be a better phrase for that?) then the council look after it. If the sign says on it "Unadopted" then they don't.

I must check this when I get home. We live on a private road that we [1] pay to maintain [2] and has what I thought was a normal road name sign. The council collect rubbish, so there has been some adoption of it.


[1] all the houses
[2] so long as we can get agreement and extract the cash

 

[Chrismawa]

The last time I reported a pot hole, they re-tarred my whole street lol

 

[summerdays]

Well I'm now polishing my halo.... I couldn't be bothered to report them as separate potholes so lumped all 6 together on the one report... here are the photos of two of them:





We'll see if anything happens about them.

 

[Jezston]

Nasty!

Although not as big as this one I spotted one morning:
https://www.cyclechat.net/

 

[Headgardener]

Well I'm now polishing my halo.... I couldn't be bothered to report them as separate potholes so lumped all 6 together on the one report... here are the photos of two of them:





We'll see if anything happens about them.

Dunno about patching the holes looks like the whole road needs resurfacing. Comes of running 44 tonne vehicles over roads that were only built for 10 - 15 tons at the most.

 

[Theseus]

I must check this when I get home. We live on a private road that we [1] pay to maintain [2] and has what I thought was a normal road name sign. The council collect rubbish, so there has been some adoption of it.


[1] all the houses
[2] so long as we can get agreement and extract the cash

Nope it doesn't say "Unadopted", just the name of the road.

 

[summerdays]

Just a follow up to the potholes I reported ... it is indeed an unadopted part of the highway so it looks as though it will stay that way until the owner decides to carry out repairs.