Worst Road Surfaces In Britain.

[AH33]

EDINBURGH

Almost every road looks like this



It's intentional as well, the council's fix was to make all the city centre roads 20mph rather than fix our third world roads. And they have the cheek to ask me for money every year.

[Yell_M3]

Isle of mull is worst I've ever driven. That was about 5 years ago.

[xjay1337]

M4 at J12 heading eastbound is absolutely awful.

[windscreen mike]

roads in bristol are not much butter

[CPWilliams]

Manchester.

Spent the bank holiday there, and was genuinely surprised at how potholed the city was.

This is compared to Bristol, which has gone all-in on the 'surface dressing' option, but remains comparatively pothole free.

Edited by CPWilliams on Thursday 31st August 23:36

[caelite]

Yeah ditto the Edinburgh ones, Perthshire is awful too, once you leave Perth and the main roads there is a lot of completely un-marked gravel tracks. West coast in and around Glasgow are bad but not as bad as the East.

[boxedin]

The whole of the UK.

Its the noise, ripples and undulations from the surfaces. I know this because I can drive / ride anywhere else in Western Europe and find my car / bike is magically 'fixed'; upon returning to the UK, its 'broken' again.

Inside lanes of motorways are royally foo'barred due to HGVs.

[SantaBarbara]

The Motorways seem to have perpetual roadworks at the moment

[Xtravaganza]

Also depends on what car you drive my clk finds every bump in the road and thats with 16" wheels standard suspension, on the same roads with a kia ceed 15" steel wheels it feels like driving a hovercraft. I've always wondered what cars are best for bad roads Rally cars?

[768]

boxedin said:

The whole of the UK.

Its the noise, ripples and undulations from the surfaces. I know this because I can drive / ride anywhere else in Western Europe and find my car / bike is magically 'fixed'; upon returning to the UK, its 'broken' again.

At least the tolls are few and far between. I was convinced I had a wheel bearing that needed replacing on the M40 today.

But no, just a terrible road surface for miles.

[Kyodo]

I'd say our (non-M) roads in general are pretty shocking compared with much of western Europe, Belgium excepted. We're in the south east and find Buckinghamshire to be the worst locally, so much so that we can tell exactly where the county lines are upon crossing over! My guess is different local authorities have different priorities.

[jagnet]

Kyodo said:

I'd say our (non-M) roads in general are pretty shocking compared with much of western Europe

They're pretty shocking compared with much of Eastern Europe as well tbh. It used to be that I'd get concerned about developing suspension issues prior to heading out there, now I get more concerned on the way back.

[JM]

caelite said:

Perthshire is awful too, once you leave Perth and the main roads there is a lot of completely un-marked gravel tracks.

Such as?

[SantaBarbara]

GSP said:

Nope not a chance... I ride up that way quite a bit and the road are pretty good in most cases. Around Horncastle/wraggby/market rasen anyway.

The peak district truely is shocking, holes everywhere, gravel all over the places, surfaces worn down to a super smooth shiny surface which is deadly in the wet... a truely horrific place to ride.

Wales/North Wales has the best road network in the UK... the surfaces are fantastic.

North Wales has no Motorway

The A55 trunk road has no hard shoulder and lots of hold ups

[Chris944]

Just back from Rosslare - Ring of Kerry - Cliffs of Moher/Burren and motorway to Dublin 7-day trip in Ireland and by and large Irish roads have better base level than British roads.

[caelite]

JM said:

caelite said:

Perthshire is awful too, once you leave Perth and the main roads there is a lot of completely un-marked gravel tracks.

Such as?

Honestly couldn't name them without looking some up, I remember when the road to Almondbank from Perth was shut, trying to navigate a route around to get to Almondbank put me onto some rather unsurfaced farm tracks. around Tibbermore.