Thursday 3rd April 2003

Concrete Booted

£77 million to be spent of ridding the UK road network of concrete

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[sneakybastard]

yeah but will they sort out the pot holes

[jmorgan]

Well, one or 2 of the roads I travel a lot that are concrete seem to have the fewest roadworks on. So once they have finished converting them, and the time and hassle, road works etc its time for more road works?

[Marshy]

jmorgan said: its time for more road works?

It's always time for more roadworks...

The rule seems to be that if you involve more than three major trunk routes in your journey, you'll encounter roadworks at some point.

[GregE240]

A45/A46? Eh??? This isn't concrete. In fact, not too long ago they put in (at last) a half decent traffic light system around this roundabout. And they laid tarmac, not concrete blocks.

Is this a load of spin or something? Do they think they can name road junctions and people will just go "Oh, thats alright then. This justifies the blatant over taxation of the common motorist?"

[plotloss]

I reckon I could do it for £25m...

I'd need a 1000 or so prisoners mind...

Matt.

[AJLintern]

What about the new section of the A30 east of Exeter? The misers surfaced that with concrete, I couldn't believe they'd do that on a new road
If they're going to destroy a stretch of countryside like that they should at least make it blend in more and use a decent noise reducing surface!

[swilly]

Concrete roads are more expensive than macadam, and were/are used where ground conditions indicated settlement will be a problem over the years.
Concrete carriageways are inflexible and will bridge zones of settlement whilst macadam carriageways are flexible and will settle with the ground causing bumps etc

[AJLintern]

Nothing to stop them making a concrete carriageway with a tarmac surface though...

[Mr2Mike]

AJLintern said: Nothing to stop them making a concrete carriageway with a tarmac surface though...

I imagine cost is enough to stop them