I have a gift for my local council
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[Small Rant]
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k you very much Cheshire East council for letting the roads on my commute become so like the face of the moon that I have to buy yet another new wheel and tyre, the 4th in 3 years. You may dutifully suck my balls.I'm not talking about potholes, I'm talking about the actual road surface being utterly absent in places and the state of the shoulder of the road being so poor that in some cases new "holes" appear on a daily basis, and there are literally hundreds of them.
Now and again you'll send out some obese, bacon sandwich eating retard who, once finished "reading" the Daily Tits will will lazily shovel a heap of tarmac into a hole, whilst blissfully ignoring the 99 other holes within 300 yards on the same road. It's always good to see my tax dollars put to such efficient use.
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nagsheadwarrior said:
8/10 a small but efficient rant.
As a driver of older cars with small standard wheels and comfy sized tyre profiles ie the standard 13" wheels on my capri this is not a problem.
Trust me, even without "low profile" tyres in the modern sense, there are some whopper holes round here. Until recently there was a pothole local to me that must have been 10" deep - I'm not joking. The As a driver of older cars with small standard wheels and comfy sized tyre profiles ie the standard 13" wheels on my capri this is not a problem.
sil filled it in but it's opening up again.The joy.
kamilb1998 said:
I've always reported serious potholes or damage to road surfaces to fillthathole.co.uk and they've always been repaired, albeit sometimes poorly, within a week or so.
Quite.The process follows thusly:
Fall into hole so deep it has it's own atmosphere
Report said hole
Council fix hole (badly) ignoring the 3749283479283479287349823749832428938949234928374 other holes within visual range of feckless hole filler. Just fix the f
king road, is it that hard? I mean really, A ROAD, and invention that has been around in various forms since 4000BC and these dheads can't even fix it. I actually PAY THESE aholeS council tax, makes me wonder who the real fking idiot is.You wanna try living in my South Coast city then...
In addition to my ridiculously high council tax bill, the thieving gits decided it was acceptable to unilaterally DOUBLE the rateable value of my business premises, and add a levy on top for their silly 'Business Improvement' scheme, which did none of the sort.
Delighted at their legalised theft from me, which rendered my tiny business close to bankruptcy, with no means to appeal (other than the useless appeals process through themselves which, surprise surprise, ended in failure - surely this must be illegal?) they continue to ignore and pretend that the state of the main roads into and out of the city centre is classed as acceptable to anybody. Some of the potholes need to be seen to be beleived - it really is getting to the point that a 4x4 is the only suitable vehicle to access town in now!
Anyway, the punchline - despite all this, they deemed that it was a good decision to spend money on repairing and renovating a 100 year-old disused railway viaduct in order to create a cycle path into the town centre, from a random location some 3 miles outside of town, that isn't really on what you'd call an obvious route.
The cost to me and other victims of legalised extortion?
A cool 1 million pounds.
Go figure.
In addition to my ridiculously high council tax bill, the thieving gits decided it was acceptable to unilaterally DOUBLE the rateable value of my business premises, and add a levy on top for their silly 'Business Improvement' scheme, which did none of the sort.
Delighted at their legalised theft from me, which rendered my tiny business close to bankruptcy, with no means to appeal (other than the useless appeals process through themselves which, surprise surprise, ended in failure - surely this must be illegal?) they continue to ignore and pretend that the state of the main roads into and out of the city centre is classed as acceptable to anybody. Some of the potholes need to be seen to be beleived - it really is getting to the point that a 4x4 is the only suitable vehicle to access town in now!
Anyway, the punchline - despite all this, they deemed that it was a good decision to spend money on repairing and renovating a 100 year-old disused railway viaduct in order to create a cycle path into the town centre, from a random location some 3 miles outside of town, that isn't really on what you'd call an obvious route.
The cost to me and other victims of legalised extortion?
A cool 1 million pounds.
Go figure.
That is utter crap chap!
I was watching a news report the other day about this and they talked to a local garage who was fitting new wheels to a Jag XK-S apparently the wheels cost "1000 each" good old BBC lol.
Dosnt help you I know but at least you shouldn't get a garage trying to bend you over
I was watching a news report the other day about this and they talked to a local garage who was fitting new wheels to a Jag XK-S apparently the wheels cost "1000 each" good old BBC lol.
Dosnt help you I know but at least you shouldn't get a garage trying to bend you over
Have you complained to this fella?
It's his fault...
http://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ecminutes/mgU...
It's his fault...
http://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ecminutes/mgU...
I've used http://www.fixmystreet.com/ a couple of times.
The potholes always get filled in within a couple of days but it just appears to be a quick fix rather than a proper repair.
The best one was a drain cover, the big cast iron ones, that was being dislodged be lorries going over it on a rural road.
The council sent a man & van very quickly (about 4 hour IIRC).
The man put a couple of bollard around it which obviously got, very quickly, sent into the field!
They did a bodge (throw some stuff in and run over it with the van) repair a few days later that lasted a couple of hour.
The easiest money to spend is someone elses - but why not spend MY money on fixing the road properly?
The potholes always get filled in within a couple of days but it just appears to be a quick fix rather than a proper repair.
The best one was a drain cover, the big cast iron ones, that was being dislodged be lorries going over it on a rural road.
The council sent a man & van very quickly (about 4 hour IIRC).
The man put a couple of bollard around it which obviously got, very quickly, sent into the field!
They did a bodge (throw some stuff in and run over it with the van) repair a few days later that lasted a couple of hour.
The easiest money to spend is someone elses - but why not spend MY money on fixing the road properly?
Exige S said:
205/40 ZR17.
You do know that ford has acknowledged a problem with their zetec S wheels, don't you? They're very flimsy, my brother had one replaced under warranty after he hit a pot hole...Give it a go, they don't shout about it obviously but they do know it's their problem
What really gets me is the council always seem have enough resource and money to add more speed bumps. 
For the last few years I have worked out which line to take to avoid pothholes, but it's getting so bad that I have to pick which bumps to hit beacuse there are so many you can't avoid them.
So does anyone know where we come in the European rubbish road surface league?
For the last few years I have worked out which line to take to avoid pothholes, but it's getting so bad that I have to pick which bumps to hit beacuse there are so many you can't avoid them.
So does anyone know where we come in the European rubbish road surface league?
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