Gravel / resurfacing on roads

[Graham]

rallen said:

I believe, maybe incorrectly, that there is very little or no accountability when you work for the council. You will always get paid your salary, you can turn in past way past 9 and leave before 5 and take hours for lunch, and no one will butt an eyelid. No bi-yearly reviews, no appraisals, no bking from your boss, nothing. And this is NOT how it works in the private sector.

Thats not how it worked in the contract services ( DLO) part of the council I worked in either and that was 14 years ago!! every contract we had was heavily monitored, and we had annual appraisals and targets etc, sick visits on the first day you were off, return to work interviews when you came back even if off for 1 day. targets to hit, loss of benifits for anything less than 100% attendance..

you may be right about how it was in the 70's but not in at part of the council these days, as they have to compete with external bodies for all their internal contracts. now the more central and contracts management parts of the council you may be right.. but certainly not all of it..

[Graham]

LoonR1 said:

Losing the front on a Monster sounds more like st riding than down to the gravel alone. It's easy to ride through it on a front end biased sports bike let alone a rear biased Monster

it was still fking scarey on a dressed bit of road on my monster this week. it was piled up about 20mm in between the cars wheel tracks and about 30-40mm in the middle of the road..

I had to turn right on to this road and at walking place the front and rear wanted to slide.. i then had to do 5 miles at not much over walking pace with both feet down, unbelievable..

a monster is more front biased than most naked's

[Graham]

technobob said:

I seem to recall there is something called 'best value'

Best value went out with nu labia, although no doubt replaced with some other similarly ste metrics..

[LoonR1]

Graham said:

it was still fking scarey on a dressed bit of road on my monster this week. it was piled up about 20mm in between the cars wheel tracks and about 30-40mm in the middle of the road..

I had to turn right on to this road and at walking place the front and rear wanted to slide.. i then had to do 5 miles at not much over walking pace with both feet down, unbelievable..

a monster is more front biased than most naked's

It's not heavily biased that way. Certainly no way a half decent rider would lose the front.

[Poison Tom 96]

Must admit, since Amey took over resurfacing the roads/sorting the infrastructure things have improved around here.....

Edited by Poison Tom 96 on Tuesday 23 July 23:15

[Jandywa]

I went to Scarborough on Weds with my girlfriend and a road up there (the A170 if I remember rightly) had just has this done. Now i've seen it done before but nothing like this. It was fking ridiculous, I honestly don't understand how it passed as a credible method of resurfacing a road. I understand it is 'temporary' or designed to prolong the life of the road underneath but i'd much rather play dodge the pothole than count the stonechips, so what is the point?

Why not save the money that would otherwise be spunked on this surface dressing and use it to resurface the roads properly in a manner deemed fit for the 21st century?