Dam Pot holes !

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I've just driven from North Wales to Cambridge. The M6 has its potholes, but the A14 is riddled with all shapes and sizes of hole.
They must have caused a few incidents. It beggars belief.

Yeap, the A14 is ghastly - in some places the holes have joined up to make furrows. Not nice driving to and from Godmanchester on Saturday.

Having said that, the Tesco car park in Ely is shocking. It was fine the other day, but all that rain has washed away parts of the surface, leaving some truly whopping holes...
 

LeetleGreyCells

Un rouleur infatigable
Drove to the Royal Armouries in Leeds yesterday. Passed two cars on the motorway that had hit the mother of all potholes and both had punctures and/or damaged wheels. I was taking my time and simply drove around the hole.
 

mick1836

Über Member
This is why one needs an SUV.
Or better still one of these?
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ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
We seem to be preparing for a Calderdale version of the cobbled Paris-Roubaix classic road race. At least I think that is what is going on ...

At any rate, once cobbled streets which had been covered over with tarmac 40+ years ago are now shedding tarmac at such a rate that they will soon all be cobbled again! :laugh:
 

snorri

Legendary Member

I see a bit of job generation in the manner the machine plants its stabilisers on the footway:sad:, perhaps the same company also sells footway repair machines:whistle:.
 
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mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
I see a bit of job generation in the manner the machine plants its stabilisers on the footway:sad:, perhaps the same company also sells footway repair machines:whistle:.
No, no jobs will be created because it'll be handled the same way that dents made by support legs of current streetlight repair vehicles are - not at all :sad: :cursing:
 

slowwww

Veteran
Location
Surrey
If more people reported potholes to their local councils maybe they would get seen to?
I report several every week to our council, using their online tool. They generally get seen to pretty quickly.
They can't fix stuff they don't know about.
Reporting pot-holes in Surrey would be a full-time job. It's just about manageable during the day but when driving in the dark it's really difficult to see them, and you can still get caught out even when driving carefully, and there's some real sink-holes out there.

The local council are out there patching them regularly, but on the high volume roads all this does is sort the issue for a few weeks before the 'patch' is ground out again, and there doesn't seem to be much road-relaying being done which is what is needed to sort the issue.

I know that they've had challenges with the cut in funding from Central Government, but the state of the roads is particularly galling when we've just had a 5.5% increase in Council Tax.
 

biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
[QUOTE 5212493, member: 9609"]i suspect the triple axle layout on the rear of the repair lorry will be doing nearly as much damage to the road surface as it repairs.

looks good though.[/QUOTE]

Can't be any worse
 
These are on my commute, & on the homeward side of the road
1. Taken Thursday 16th January, & the section under the mud-flap had re-opened by early March
It's been refilled today


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2. Oddly, these, haven't been touched, even though they had to pass them to get to number3:scratch:


View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213797013791831&set=a.10213583654737988.1073741882.1601508436&type=3&theater




3. Appeared over the past couple of weeks
Patched this morning/early PM (I passed at 14:30 & it was filled)
No remedial work to the sunken surrounds, just an in-fill


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Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
Potholes have made this week's headlines in the Accrington Observer. https://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/special-report-roads-compared-third-14575823 It seems that both Labour and the Conservatives are as usual blaming each other for the problem. This is one of the major reasons i haven't cycled for months. Ok,i know we can take our bikes and ride elsewhere,but i'm supposing the roads aren't that much better elsewhere that it'd be worthwhile doing so.:thumbsdown:
A few roads near to where i live are so bad that if you drive on them you find yourself swerving from side to side to avoid the deep holes. This takes some concentration and lessens your ability to judge and avoid other objects o the road.....like me on my fecking bike!!!!:B) :cursing:

I was thinking about voting for the Green Party candidate in next week's local elections. Then i just happened to walk past her house the other day and saw the cars on her drive. There she was last Thursday,delivering election leaflets on her bike,but on her drive she has a 4x4 "Chelsea tractor" and a bloody big gas guzzling Porsche!:rolleyes:
 
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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
I hit one today at the bottom of a hill - it shattered my Out-front and sent the Garmin flying across the road into a hedge:angry:
Nowadays I wont go faster than 25 mph (down hill of course). I have found that as I get older I dont bounce as much when I land. With so many potholes I REALLY try to avoid them.
 
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