Stupid headline of the day

[Drago]

"What is behind the spike in pothole related callouts?"

Erm, potholes perhaps?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddn0n3p2ppo

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Drivers not slowing down

 

[matticus]

I think it's a lot more complicated than you dooffusses realise:

It's a combination of factors:
- potholes, and
- drivers hitting them.

No need to thank me ...

 

[derrick]

Cheaper than speed bumps

 

[Electric_Andy]

I don't know if it was coincidence, but I reported 3 potholes on my road the other week. 7 days later they had been repaired. Are people just not reporting them in the correct way, or do they just take ages? There is a justification/safety question on our council form, and I always put that it's a danger to cyclists (because they are)

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I read the title of the thread as referring to stupid headlines in general not just about potholes. Mainly because it is in GC and not Advocacy.

Perhaps @Drago could clarify?

Apologies if I have been dumb.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Potholes with spikes in?

"What is behind the spike in pothole related callouts?"

Erm, potholes perhaps?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddn0n3p2ppo

Potholes with spikes in them? This is a worrying new development.

 

[Moon bunny]

As an experiment I reported several on our route to the main road, purposefully omitting one that was off the cycling line, all but that one were repaired within days, the unreported one not, despite being in sight of two others.

 

[matticus]

I read the title of the thread as referring to stupid headlines in general not just about potholes.

I think you'll find it's a lot more specific than that. (I seem to be doing a lot of explaining today).

;-)

 

[craigwend]

Cheaper than speed bumps

Yeh but, if you used all the tarmac from speedbumps and put them into the potholes it would all be fine...

Speedbumps fault

 

[derrick]

Yeh but, if you used all the tarmac from speedbumps and put them into the potholes it would all be fine...

Speedbumps fault

But that would cost money, pot holes are free.

 

[wiggydiggy]

This is probably the stupidest headline I can think of:

 

[Brandane]

Ones I remember from Private Eye....

"Shell Found on Beach."

"Body Found in Cemetery."

 

[wiggydiggy]

 

[Dave7]

He's dead now.
He sniffed Drago's bike seat!!