PatchPal pothole solution?

[ColinJ]

This video just popped up in my YouTube feed.



If PatchPal really works then it could make a huge difference to the pothole problems plaguing the world's roads! (Obviously, proper quality repairs would be better, but they are taking too long to get done, and often we end up with bodge repairs anyway. A quick bodge beats a slow bodge!)

 

[PaulSB]

It may work well but much of the road surface around that repair will disintegrate soon. There's no substitute for a proper resurfacing and the sooner UK local authorities grasp this concept the sooner our roads will be fixed and long-term cash saved.

 

[SteveH80]

The problem is we've ignored the roads for so many years there is no longer an easy fix. The surface courses have long gone and we're now eating up the binder, base and possibly even the sub-base.

There is now money available (£7.3b spread over this Parliament) but it needs the Highways and local councils to get their acts together, plan the work and spend their share of the pot. The system is that next year's money is dependent on what they do this year, so no year on year money to prop up other services or claim as DOGE type efficiency savings. Or that's the theory anyway.

From what I'm seeing on my coddiwomples around the area Durham are doing quite well, but it's just the easy stuff so far such as buying scanning kits, 'making safe' the worst bits and repairing easily closed backroads.

It will take the next 2 or 3 Parliaments to keep at this level of commitment to get us out of this mess, which unfortunately I can't see happening. Why spend the money on infrastructure when it could be used for election winning tax cuts?

Hopefully I'm being over cynical or just plain wrong and by this time next year I'll be complaining about closures of major roads for repair 🙃

 

[raleighnut]

Looked like they were filling it with Elephant Dung at first.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Looked like they were filling it with Elephant Dung at first.

At least you would get a soft landing…

 

[Exlaser2]

It may work well but much of the road surface around that repair will disintegrate soon. There's no substitute for a proper resurfacing and the sooner UK local authorities grasp this concept the sooner our roads will be fixed and long-term cash saved.

All councils know this but as their budgets were cut by a third between 2011 to 2024 . So statuary services had to be prioritised.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

I had to check the date (as we are early April).
To me looks daft. Looks line a poor repair that will cost a lot more than proper pothole fixes.

Looks like shipped in cardboard boxes (printed up with branding). Looks like the product production involves a fair amount of processing to create the individual sachets.

Is it a DIY idea (ordered online by household and a box or two delivered by DHL). And how long before a driver fails to spot somebody crouching in the middle of the road?

I think a mistimed 1 April publicatoon.

 

[PaulSB]

All councils know this but as their budgets were cut by a third between 2011 to 2024 . So statuary services had to be prioritised.

I completely agree. I have a son who receives Supported Living in the Community - a statutory service - so I'm very familiar with the issues. I can rant for England on this one.........but people get what they vote for.......if I say any more I'll get banned.