Roads resurfaced with tar and chipping stones.....
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I am wondering if there are any other areas in the uk where the local authorities have decided to waste more of our money by resurfacing perfectly good roads by covering them with tar then throwing an inch of chipping stones all over them.This has been happening in my area now for the last couple of years now and last week the road directly outside my close has been done meaning each time i leave the house i get shot blasted by 10mm stone chippings from every direction for the first mile of my journey.
I understand the roads have taken a hammering from the last two winters,but the roads they are doing this to are in perfect condition and the roads damaged by the frost ie.full of pot holes have just been filled with tarmac.
I really cant see the point of it and all it seems to achieve is to cover everyones cars with tar spots and stone chips.Has anyone else had this kind of resurfacing work done in their area recently and are as pissed off with it as i am.
I understand the roads have taken a hammering from the last two winters,but the roads they are doing this to are in perfect condition and the roads damaged by the frost ie.full of pot holes have just been filled with tarmac.
I really cant see the point of it and all it seems to achieve is to cover everyones cars with tar spots and stone chips.Has anyone else had this kind of resurfacing work done in their area recently and are as pissed off with it as i am.
Yes, in the suburbs of Glasgow they were doing this last week, first time I'd ever seen it - a tanker truck full of liquid bitumen and some machine depositing chips on top, the end result is an unevenly coated road with lots of loose chips that looks like it will last all of about a month.
I was suprised to see part of the "Ford road" at the Widnes end done like this recently as it's a 70MPH dual carriagway, so not much hope of people sticking to the advised 20. I sat next to another car and blocked a Volvo XC90 that was approaching at normal speed and he didn't look very happy!
Yup, just done a main dual carriageway near me.
20mph limit posted, partner doing 20mph in her immaculate and very carefully looked after Golf like most of the other drivers, and f
king wkers in vans and suchlike (so not their own vehicles) hammering past at 70mph machine gunning her car with tar and chippings!
wkers! 
Agree with the poster above, pull out into lane 2 at 20mph and sit there, stop the ignorant fkers from doing it.
20mph limit posted, partner doing 20mph in her immaculate and very carefully looked after Golf like most of the other drivers, and f
king wkers in vans and suchlike (so not their own vehicles) hammering past at 70mph machine gunning her car with tar and chippings! w
kers! Agree with the poster above, pull out into lane 2 at 20mph and sit there, stop the ignorant f
kers from doing it. 
XL1000V said:
Its bad enough in a car, try coming round a corner on a bike to find a road thats just been freshly done. 
Was out with some mates in the Peak District a couple of years ago where this had been done - they were deep too. Absolutely lethal - it was like riding on marbles.If a dual carriage way or similar had been surfaced this way i would avoid it completely! Luckily the road outside my street is a 30mph zone with signs posting 10mph to 'avoid skidding' but i still cringe when i see some fking nimrod aproaching me at 30mph+ in a car he obviously doesn't care less about knowing i am going to get showered in stones.
Ok my car is over 7yrs old now but it is still my p+j and cost me an awful lot of money to buy and maintain.
You would think that they could at least send a road sweeper of some description to sweep up the excess chippings which are now gathering against the kerbs like a mini snow drift.
I am guessing in another week or so the roads will be clear,though i am dreading the next time i clean my car.Touch up pen at the ready!
king nimrod aproaching me at 30mph+ in a car he obviously doesn't care less about knowing i am going to get showered in stones.Ok my car is over 7yrs old now but it is still my p+j and cost me an awful lot of money to buy and maintain.
You would think that they could at least send a road sweeper of some description to sweep up the excess chippings which are now gathering against the kerbs like a mini snow drift.
I am guessing in another week or so the roads will be clear,though i am dreading the next time i clean my car.Touch up pen at the ready!
This drives me fking mental, especially when the council do it on a road I cannot avoid if I want to reach my house! And then when I creep along at 15mph to avoid stone chips as much as possible, there are the morons who come flying past at 30mph and shower my car in chippings! 
When they laid all the stones down, it was so loose you could pull them up with your fingers and see the tar underneath - I'd rather avoid potholes than drive through that crap.
king mental, especially when the council do it on a road I cannot avoid if I want to reach my house! And then when I creep along at 15mph to avoid stone chips as much as possible, there are the morons who come flying past at 30mph and shower my car in chippings! When they laid all the stones down, it was so loose you could pull them up with your fingers and see the tar underneath - I'd rather avoid potholes than drive through that crap.davepoth said:
There's a good reason for doing the road this way - It doesn't get damaged by frost like tarmac does, meaning that you don't get massive potholes.
The only reason they do it is because it is much cheaper than tarmac. You've obviously bought into their "it's better than tarmac" lies 
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