Gone to pot (hole)...

[Pupp]

Anyone else fancy keeping a running log of our favourite county highway potholes here?

Sort of brief location description, date of reporting (if can be bothered), and date any attempt at repair actually occurs etc... see if we can shame the buggers into upping their woeful game. if damage has been incurred, post that up too and the value!

I'll start you off with a wheel swallowing crater in the centre of Grafton Underwood - reported 30 Jan (I think) - been painted a week, paint now wearing off, no fix yet...

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[Pupp]

And trending today is the fine collection of carbuncles and craters being lovingly nurtured and grown on the A14 J11 elevated min roundabout serving the east bound carriageway, at Cranford. Neglect for another month guys and should be completely impassable to anthing less than a moto-crosser... top effort!

[Pupp]

Pupp said:

And trending today is the fine collection of carbuncles and craters being lovingly nurtured and grown on the A14 J11 elevated min roundabout serving the east bound carriageway, at Cranford. Neglect for another month guys and should be completely impassable to anthing less than a moto-crosser... top effort!

Apparently this counts as a repair and resolved (according to the NCC Street Doctor service yesterday arising from my report a few days prior to posting the above, so maybe 9 Feb)

[Pupp]

marcusgrant said:

Worth reporting them as well as moaning. Every one I've reported has been sorted out.

Then your experience is vastly different from mine. Unless 'sorted out' is achieved by randomly shovelling and heeling a couple of heaps of some half-strength scrap ashphalt mix roughly into the hole and hoping it stays put for more than half a day, whilst stoically ignoring the others that have invariably appeared around it in the time it has taken to even do that.

The statutory duty is to keep the highway in safe repair (including by employing a properly effective inspection regime; not just by reacting to road users' 'moans', sorry reports). The current condition of the County's roads is a disgrace and those responsible for the (mis)managed neglect that has left far too many routes akin to a cross between a recently harvested spud field and the Mare Tranquillitatis should hang their heads in shame.

[Pupp]

Pupp said:

Pupp said:

And trending today is the fine collection of carbuncles and craters being lovingly nurtured and grown on the A14 J11 elevated min roundabout serving the east bound carriageway, at Cranford. Neglect for another month guys and should be completely impassable to anthing less than a moto-crosser... top effort!

Apparently this counts as a repair and resolved (according to the NCC Street Doctor service yesterday arising from my report a few days prior to posting the above, so maybe 9 Feb)

Only taken a month from being reported and re-reported (having been like it for literally months previously) but this has finally been patched...