the state of our roads
Discussion
So this might be confined to my area of Northamptonshire but are other folks roads in a frankly awful state ?
Road repairs seem none existent, there's a pothole every 100 yards and what has happened to drainage ? Any time it rains vast puddles stretch across the road giving semi flood conditions that you either skirt or have to ford.
I know vehicle weight has spiraled ever up with more and more EV's so this is probably a factor in hammering them even more and I'm informed once the HS2 works are done then building firms will resurface the surrounding roads
Road repairs seem none existent, there's a pothole every 100 yards and what has happened to drainage ? Any time it rains vast puddles stretch across the road giving semi flood conditions that you either skirt or have to ford.
I know vehicle weight has spiraled ever up with more and more EV's so this is probably a factor in hammering them even more and I'm informed once the HS2 works are done then building firms will resurface the surrounding roads
South part of the M60 is breaking up with potholes appearing all over, people swerving to save the alloyz is making life difficult on the commute. Most roads re surfaced in the last 10 years are crazing and have a year or so at best left. I would not enjoy riding a motorcycle around these parts.
te in Surrey. Main reason the corvette does less than 1k per year, and most of those are on my annual trip to the Loire. Same where i live outside bristol and all over South Gloucestershire have had 3 tyres destroyed thanks to pot holes and rough roads in the past few years. Last year they shut one of the lanes in and out of my village for 6 months to improve drainage driving through there tonight no word of a lie over a foot deep of water for 100 yards and you can feel the road underneath washing away.
Same round here, villages surrounding loughborough area.
Some roads are OK - just OK - but some others are essentially beyond repair in my view. Absolutely crumbling.
Loughborough Road up to the A6006 and Leake Lane down from the A6006 toward Normanton are my "drive in the middle" roads if no one is coming the other way because they're just wrecked.
The West Leake Lane out to the A453 is also completely shot; huge chunks are ripped up by all the lorry traffic, even the middle of the road where the white lines are normally are basically just full of gaping holes down to the hardcore below the tarmac.
Roundabout in our village, after the recent cold snap, now looks like its got severe score marks in it. Probably caused by the cold and all the school run people and busses giving it their best Ayrton Senna impression going round the roundabout. They've dug like concentric gashes into the road. We've had the roads done - or parts of them - in the village numerous times over the years but its never very long after that some other malady happens with gas service, water supply, sewers or telephony and its all had trenches dug into it again.
I've been looking at getting something a bit spicy but on the way home today I thought I might be better off getting something like a Ranger Raptor!
Also I have noticed a big uptick in things hitting my windscreen... usually you get this once in a blue moon. This last few weeks I've had a stone fired at the screen at least once per trip to work. Today I had two on the way home. So there is clearly debris from holes strewn all over the place. Only got 2 chips so far, nothing catastrophic yet.
Some roads are OK - just OK - but some others are essentially beyond repair in my view. Absolutely crumbling.
Loughborough Road up to the A6006 and Leake Lane down from the A6006 toward Normanton are my "drive in the middle" roads if no one is coming the other way because they're just wrecked.
The West Leake Lane out to the A453 is also completely shot; huge chunks are ripped up by all the lorry traffic, even the middle of the road where the white lines are normally are basically just full of gaping holes down to the hardcore below the tarmac.
Roundabout in our village, after the recent cold snap, now looks like its got severe score marks in it. Probably caused by the cold and all the school run people and busses giving it their best Ayrton Senna impression going round the roundabout. They've dug like concentric gashes into the road. We've had the roads done - or parts of them - in the village numerous times over the years but its never very long after that some other malady happens with gas service, water supply, sewers or telephony and its all had trenches dug into it again.
I've been looking at getting something a bit spicy but on the way home today I thought I might be better off getting something like a Ranger Raptor!
Also I have noticed a big uptick in things hitting my windscreen... usually you get this once in a blue moon. This last few weeks I've had a stone fired at the screen at least once per trip to work. Today I had two on the way home. So there is clearly debris from holes strewn all over the place. Only got 2 chips so far, nothing catastrophic yet.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Wednesday 21st January 22:11
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Wednesday 21st January 22:16
They don't seem to fix them properly anymore either. They'll pack in some tarmac that is not sealed around the edges properly. 6 months later it's all out the hole and spread across the road. The hole is then bigger than before. On the continent they seem to do a much better job at a permanent repair.
Why is this? Council using the cheapest bidder to fill them?
Why is this? Council using the cheapest bidder to fill them?
I often see discussions like this and wonder how many people actually report them.
Most Councils will have something on their website to do this and if suddenly everyone in the country started reporting them then the budgets to fix them properly might be looked at and perhaps increased.
Most Councils will have something on their website to do this and if suddenly everyone in the country started reporting them then the budgets to fix them properly might be looked at and perhaps increased.
My commute home from WV12 to TF2, for the last 3 weeks, has changed completely thanks to potholes. One on a minor road that has, over the years, cost me two tyres and a suspension upright, and two new ones that recently appeared on the A41 and A5. To avoid them is adds (first world problem) 10 miles per day to the commute.
By coincidence, I had to do a site visit yesterday to the QE Hospital is Birmingham and the residential roads needed to access it were - I kid you not - like the surface of the moon.
By coincidence, I had to do a site visit yesterday to the QE Hospital is Birmingham and the residential roads needed to access it were - I kid you not - like the surface of the moon.
Does some of our road tax go towards helping councils pay for maintenance?, I think it's about time due to how every council seems cash strapped.
I'm in Wiltshire which has been rated green/good recently, no idea what the roads must be like elsewhere. To be fail they have been doing more resurfacing of longer stretches recently.
I'm in Wiltshire which has been rated green/good recently, no idea what the roads must be like elsewhere. To be fail they have been doing more resurfacing of longer stretches recently.
Cragski85 said:
Same where i live outside bristol and all over South Gloucestershire have had 3 tyres destroyed thanks to pot holes and rough roads in the past few years. Last year they shut one of the lanes in and out of my village for 6 months to improve drainage driving through there tonight no word of a lie over a foot deep of water for 100 yards and you can feel the road underneath washing away.
Seconded. South Glos seem to be on a mission to use the most cones and block off the most A roads possible, forcing traffic onto lanes. 10 mile commute? That'll be nearly an hour sir. Hit a water filled hole just before Christmas - turned out to be 20cm deep... I measured it when dry to support my claim for a new tyre after it destroyed mine (sidewall went).
£M's spent on cycle lanes that no one asked for though...so there is that (better be a mountain bike though!)
Previous said:
Cragski85 said:
Same where i live outside bristol and all over South Gloucestershire have had 3 tyres destroyed thanks to pot holes and rough roads in the past few years. Last year they shut one of the lanes in and out of my village for 6 months to improve drainage driving through there tonight no word of a lie over a foot deep of water for 100 yards and you can feel the road underneath washing away.
Seconded. South Glos seem to be on a mission to use the most cones and block off the most A roads possible, forcing traffic onto lanes. 10 mile commute? That'll be nearly an hour sir. Hit a water filled hole just before Christmas - turned out to be 20cm deep... I measured it when dry to support my claim for a new tyre after it destroyed mine (sidewall went).
£M's spent on cycle lanes that no one asked for though...so there is that (better be a mountain bike though!)
Master Bean said:
Previous said:
Cragski85 said:
Same where i live outside bristol and all over South Gloucestershire have had 3 tyres destroyed thanks to pot holes and rough roads in the past few years. Last year they shut one of the lanes in and out of my village for 6 months to improve drainage driving through there tonight no word of a lie over a foot deep of water for 100 yards and you can feel the road underneath washing away.
Seconded. South Glos seem to be on a mission to use the most cones and block off the most A roads possible, forcing traffic onto lanes. 10 mile commute? That'll be nearly an hour sir. Hit a water filled hole just before Christmas - turned out to be 20cm deep... I measured it when dry to support my claim for a new tyre after it destroyed mine (sidewall went).
£M's spent on cycle lanes that no one asked for though...so there is that (better be a mountain bike though!)
They may make some sense in Bradley Stoke. On the A38 to Thornbury or other longer distance routes they don't.
Anyway, we digress
Edited by Previous on Thursday 22 January 01:02
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