KCC's answer to road repairs

[Westy Pre-Lit]

A friend just posted these pics on his Facebook page.

He phoned up the council to complain of the shoddy repair and was told they use the van to flatten the surface of pothole repairs now....job well done then and well worth the effort.

[clarkey540i]

Pahahaha you can do better than that with a spade! VED needs to be ring fenced to be spent on roads (and not bloody bus or cycle lanes!)

[mat777]

That surface looks worse than the bloody potholes probably were. Stupid contractor wkers, even a garden roller would have done a better job. I'd threaten to go to the papers and kick up a fuss unless they come back and do it properly

[rehab71]

mat777 said:

That surface looks worse than the bloody potholes probably were. Stupid contractor wkers, even a garden roller would have done a better job. I'd threaten to go to the papers and kick up a fuss unless they come back and do it properly

Agreed!

[Martin_Hx]

Appalling, but is anyone surprised !

[Pothole]

Are they Maltese contractors?

[Westy Pre-Lit]

I'm willing to bet they wouldn't have done that outside their house, council s.

[007 VXR]

Pothole said:

Are they Maltese contractors?

even they are not THAT bad now

[Pothole]

007 VXR said:

Pothole said:

Are they Maltese contractors?

even they are not THAT bad now

I saw some doing something very similar just last September outside a mate's house.

[MajorProblem]

It'll be some bullst to say they have responded to reports of the potholes, that's what happens when you have more people making excel charts about the potholes than people available to fix them.

[Face for Radio]

Westy Pre-Lit said:

A friend just posted these pics on his Facebook page.

He phoned up the council to complain of the shoddy repair and was told they use the van to flatten the surface of pothole repairs now....job well done then and well worth the effort.

That is by far and away, the worst and laziest 'repair' I've ever seen.

As I've said before, send a couple of trained chimps out with a tonne of generic AC, and tell them to fill in as many holes as possible. It'd take another few seconds per hole to use one of these:



Although any self-respecting streetworks trained operative would use one of these:

[goneape]

Funny kind of horse that went up that street

[b0rk]

I believe the correct terminology is compacted in service.

Face for Radio said:

Although any self-respecting streetworks trained operative would use one of these:

Well using one of those would require a proper system of hand arm vibration monitoring and methods of reducing exposure to "as low as practically possible", having systems of work designed to keep employees below the ELV is no longer acceptable to HSE. TBH not quite sure how you comply with this when using wackers without some form of worker rotation system.

Really need to use plate compactor these days... but that'd be a two man person lift and require a ramped low bed van, you can't technically lift one from a flat bed transit due to weight. .

Much better to send a single operative with a tub of cold lay then repeat every few weeks.

[manic47]

Bah - at least they've made a cursory attempt, that's better than around here.

[Riley Blue]

Best place for those photos is the front page of the local press.

[vx220]

Pothole said:

Are they Maltese contractors?

IIRC I have seen footage of the Mexican gp where they were petting bits of hot tarmac with spades to repair potholes in the track, just an hour or so before race start...

[anonymous-user]

Maybe I'm too old school, but do people not take any pride in their work anymore?

[sjj84]

It would appear not, I'd be embarrassed if I'd been the contractor that had done that.

[anonymous-user]

sjj84 said:

It would appear not, I'd be embarrassed if I'd been the contractor that had done that.

You and me both.

[Digger]

Reminds me of the colour of some of my fillings!