What's Happening With The Maintenance Of Our Roads ?

[Bazile]

Have you noticed a significant increase in pot Holes on the roads you travel ?

On my route to work , which is just under two miles of almost entirely dual carriageway , there is roughly about 7 large potholes , which have been there for sometime now .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42826912

[gingejbee]

Presumably, it's cheaper to pay compensation to people with damaged vehicles (and who bother to make a claim) than it is to fix the potholes.

[Baldric]

Day 1, Large unavoidable, due to oncoming traffic, pothole
Day 2, Drove over it very carefully
Day 3, Sorted, so no Problem

[Peter Pedant]

Happening ?

there is nothing happening .....

[vulcan42]

In Northern Ireland they have paid out nearly half a million pounds in the past two years, that amount would have filled quite a few holes. I suspect the problem is lack of money but they do waste a lot. My friend has a pothole outside his house, it's deep enough for birds to bathe in, which they do. My friend reported it and a man came and inspected the hole. A few weeks after that another man checks that the first report is correct and sprays paint on it. Two months have now passed and the only development is the hole has got deeper.

[Gromit]

The Government imposes a cap on how much Council Tax can rise. Councils are punished by being denied grants and other funding from central Government if they exceed the cap.
The result is that many councils are under funded and short of money. Your local council is responsible for your local roads (not motorways). So when they run out of money, the roads don’t get repaired.

[Spicerack]

I just knew it would be the fault of the Tory Government or Fatcher.
Those Muslim 'drop-in' centres don't fund themselves.

[Mamyalynne]

Report, report and report again.

https://www.gov.uk/report-pothole

[Gromit]

Mamyalynne

What an utterly pointless site that is.
It just links to the homepage of your local council.

[Mamyalynne]

Handy for those who don't know their local Council Website though - I have used another site in the past to get pavements repaired and street lights fixed.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.fixmystreet.com/

[sapelesam]

Where I live in North Lancashire the roads have always been well maintained. However, in the last year or so things have started to change.With narrow roads and no street lighting, the potholes are getting harder to miss. I report potholes regularly and they usually get fixed. I've now had to make a claim for a new alloy wheel, tyre and front wheels alignment. The total cost is £685. Fortunately this bomb crater had been reported 3 weeks earlier so I should get the claim settled, I hope, fingers crossed.

[Old_Geezer]

Couldn't miss a particularly nasty one this morning. Appreciate that it is the cold season which tends to cause deterioration, but to my mind it is indicative of not being willing to do/pay for a high quality job previously.

[vulcan42]

Sometimes they repair them very quickly. Where I worked one of the company reps damaged a company car in a pothole and the MD asked me to photograph it prior to a claim. By the time I arrived, about 90 minutes later, the pothole had been filled in and all I could photograph was the still steaming asphalt.

[Old_Geezer]

Should have gone back and photographed it again a month later ;-)

[Bazile]

vulcan

More than likely it had been reported previously , probabbly several times

[tiggerblue10]

There is a road near me that is being resurfaced next week and all nearby residents have received a letter from the Council giving notice. About time as its completely uneven end to end and makes my steering wheel judder every time I drive through it not to mention the impact on my tyres.

[jourdain2]

Terrible around us. About a mile out of our village we cross into N. Yorks. and the pothole problem becomes horrific. We have large, potato-bearing lorries moving regularly along it and the only safe option it to crawl. 'They' stuck cones in the worst potholes a couple of months ago and, after being regularly sprayed with muddy water, they became extra traffic hazards.

Within the last 3 mths one friend had the bottom ripped out of her car (written-off) when she had to drive atthe edge of the road and through puddles concealing potholes (one contained a solid bit of metal, which did the ripping) and another hit another water-filled pothole which wrecked his suspension on the spot.

Could we (Oop North) have a bit more of our money back, please and forget about HS2 and other idiocies.

[tamborine]

Pot holes are fixed by highways, what you pay road tax for.

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[douglas9401]

Potato bearing lorries!? Are they anything like coconut palms? :-)