Pot Holes - Larger than Life

[BigSid]

It is yellow paint round here - designating a hole which is scheduled for repair. The paint isn't to make the potholes easier to see (though it may help a little), it is to tell the contractors which holes to fill.

A few years ago a colleague saw that some potholes on a stretch of road had been marked for repair but others had not. There didn't seem to be any logic to which had been marked , e.g. area and depth. Perhaps there's a volume measurement. Any way he bought a couple of cans of spray paint and circled the unmarked ones. The contractor filled them all. Result!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It's bad everywhere. My street resembles the surface of the moon.

Is this your photo?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Are county councils still circling pot holes with white spray paint? I drove to nearby Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley Lancashire yesterday, on a wet and windy day and encountered lots of pot holes that weren't white paint circled. The Ribble Valley is supposed to be one of the most affluent boroughs in Britain, so why can't the council afford to mark their potholes folk ask. Well, as we know it's the county not the borough council which is/are responsible for the roads of each town. Therefore Lancashire County Council are responsible for marking pot holes in the borough of Ribble Valley, not the town council. I didn't see any pot holes white paint circled which meant they were hard to see, especially on wet roads.

This is how they mark them in Manchester.

 

[raleighnut]

It is yellow paint round here - designating a hole which is scheduled for repair. The paint isn't to make the potholes easier to see (though it may help a little), it is to tell the contractors which holes to fill.

We have a cluster of large potholes at the end of the road, 1 has been circled with paint to be filled.................the others who knows.

 

[Jenkins]

Suffolk County Council consider that this is OK to leave for up to 8 weeks before it's fixed
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Good news - I was out this way during the week and this trench has finally been properly repaired along with about half the other potholes along the road. Just the other half of them to do.

 

[SteveH80]

Bloody traffic lights and road works all over the place at the moment...
It's nice to have something new to complain about

 

[katiewlx]

Good news - I was out this way during the week and this trench has finally been properly repaired along with about half the other potholes along the road. Just the other half of them to do.

yes they seem to have been filling in alot lately, almost like theres an election coming up soon...

shame some roads seem to have developed a whole bunch of new ones in the interim, at least though I havent felt like I did earlier in the year that I basically had to just look at the road nearly the whole time to make sure I didnt hit one, I can at least look around again occassionally.

 

[Jenkins]

yes they seem to have been filling in alot lately, almost like theres an election coming up soon...

shame some roads seem to have developed a whole bunch of new ones in the interim, at least though I havent felt like I did earlier in the year that I basically had to just look at the road nearly the whole time to make sure I didnt hit one, I can at least look around again occassionally.

Or they're using up the budget before the end of the financial year. There's certainly been a blitz on a couple of roads closer to home this week and with proper repairs rather than chucking some tarmac in the hole and flattening it with a spade.

 

[katiewlx]

Or they're using up the budget before the end of the financial year. There's certainly been a blitz on a couple of roads closer to home this week and with proper repairs rather than chucking some tarmac in the hole and flattening it with a spade.

well they got marked down in that DfT review for not spending all the money theyd been given, though it all seemed a bit odd accounting, but their renewed zeal to repair things seems to have carried on beyond the FY boundary Im also seeing quite alot of proper patching repairs too, instead of the normal just tarmac a hole and oh look its broken out again 6months later as you say.

but they also seem to be doing kind of temporary "safe" repairs, like a we will we come back and do it properly later style, as well

 

[Alex321]

Found this one last week.

 

[SteveH80]

well they got marked down in that DfT review for not spending all the money theyd been given, though it all seemed a bit odd accounting, but their renewed zeal to repair things seems to have carried on beyond the FY boundary Im also seeing quite alot of proper patching repairs too, instead of the normal just tarmac a hole and oh look its broken out again 6months later as you say.

but they also seem to be doing kind of temporary "safe" repairs, like a we will we come back and do it properly later style, as well

It will be the start of the £7.3b spend

 

[DRM]

apparently it's do with funding, government will take funding for something or other off councils unless they repair potholes within a set time frame

 

[SteveH80]

apparently it's do with funding, government will take funding for something or other off councils unless they repair potholes within a set time frame

Not quite.
The £7.3b is over the life of this parliament. From what I understand for each council the next year's piece of this is dependent on what they have done this year and what is planned for next year.
If the local council is on the ball with a good business plan they will get money, if not ...
There is a Gov website about it if you want to dig into it.
In the meantime feel free to make your local MP's life a living hell about this, it's what they are there for

 

[DRM]

Not quite.
The £7.3b is over the life of this parliament. From what I understand for each council the next year's piece of this is dependent on what they have done this year and what is planned for next year.
If the local council is on the ball with a good business plan they will get money, if not ...
There is a Gov website about it if you want to dig into it.
In the meantime feel free to make your local MP's life a living hell about this, it's what they are there for

Which is why our councils idea of a pothole repair is to drop a lump of tarmac in the pothole,heat it, then stamp it down with a size 9 boot ! job done as far as they're concerned

 

[SteveH80]

Which is why our councils idea of a pothole repair is to drop a lump of tarmac in the pothole,heat it, then stamp it down with a size 9 boot ! job done as far as they're concerned

That means they won't be getting any money next year... All the more for the organised councils