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I know it’s been discussed a million times before but my trip into Cambridge just now highlighted that I’ve never seen the roads in such a state in my 63 years on the planet. Even on the A14 Newmarket by-pass there’s craters in the slow and middle lane. I normally start getting positive when February comes round and thoughts about getting my Summer car out before long but them roads are going to take months to fix.
Don’t blame anyone buying a SUV and I would buy one myself if I had the money to cope.
Don’t blame anyone buying a SUV and I would buy one myself if I had the money to cope.
Today I was on one of my usual routes and at one point it genuinely becomes a slalom where you either brave one ever deeping hole (which already blew one tyre last year) or wait for oncoming traffic to clear so you can use half their lane to go around.
Moaning doesnt help though and the only solution I came up with was drive slowly and get rid of anything resembling a low profile tyre.
gotoPzero said:
I moved to Scotland 18 months ago and on the whole the roads are generally much better.
The rural roads in particular are decent. In town it becomes a bit more of a noticeable issue.
Here in the South-East it’s just too much traffic + cold and wet weather = roads in appalling condition The rural roads in particular are decent. In town it becomes a bit more of a noticeable issue.
FarmerJim said:
It's very simple. This is what 14+ years of austerity looks like. As a nation, we need either to agree to an increase in public spending, or just resign ourselves to continuing decline.
I’m saying it in an apolitical type of way because the main culprit is the wet weather then freezing up which is beyond anyones control and the volume of traffic.FarmerJim said:
It's very simple. This is what 14+ years of austerity looks like. As a nation, we need either to agree to an increase in public spending, or just resign ourselves to continuing decline.
Not this again, in 2006 we spent £552 billion that's £966 billion in todays money the government budget for 2025-26 is £1347 billion we are spending another £381 billion in real terms....It's what we are spending it on that is the issue.
Wills2 said:
FarmerJim said:
It's very simple. This is what 14+ years of austerity looks like. As a nation, we need either to agree to an increase in public spending, or just resign ourselves to continuing decline.
Not this again, in 2006 we spent £552 billion that's £966 billion in todays money the government budget for 2025-26 is £1347 billion we are spending another £381 billion in real terms....It's what we are spending it on that is the issue.
As with the police, you can largely now write off any meaningful advancements in terms of improvement, if it doesn't fit the agenda, it doesn't get priority, regardless of importance or effect. Box ticking appears to be all that matters, the result now being that motorists are charged more for everything, with less to show in return.
gotoPzero said:
I moved to Scotland 18 months ago and on the whole the roads are generally much better.
The rural roads in particular are decent. In town it becomes a bit more of a noticeable issue.
You must be lucky because the roads around here in Ayrshire are dire. The main issue is that when they do repair them it's a poor repair which doesn't last long.The rural roads in particular are decent. In town it becomes a bit more of a noticeable issue.
Edited by cuprabob on Sunday 1st February 13:46
Awful round here on the outskirts of Leicestershire.
Luckily I am on 55 profile tyres, but going over some of the craters on my usual trip to work, makes me wince. Hate to think what damages it does if on a 35/40 profile.
Some of them are outright dangerous as well. long sweeping bend on an NSL with a long 2" deep one near the middle of the road that makes the back end of the car wobble if you get a wheel in it.
Luckily I am on 55 profile tyres, but going over some of the craters on my usual trip to work, makes me wince. Hate to think what damages it does if on a 35/40 profile.
Some of them are outright dangerous as well. long sweeping bend on an NSL with a long 2" deep one near the middle of the road that makes the back end of the car wobble if you get a wheel in it.
The A roads here in Gwynedd, North Wales are pretty good. They do repairs in the spring, before the tourist season. That pattern has been going on for at least the 12 years I have lived here. When I travel to Kent, though, the roads are noticeably worse. Part of the reason I can accept runflats up here.
OddCat said:
FarmerJim said:
It's very simple. This is what 14+ years of austerity spending on the wrong things looks like. As a nation, we need either to agree to an increase in public spending, or just resign ourselves to continuing decline.
FTFY
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