f@@@ing "road dressing"

[RT]

WTF is going on with Cheshire county council?

They have taken it upon themselves to spread 10 tonnes of gravel over every useable highway around Congleton / Macclesfield in the mame of "surface dressing". Oh - and the in the process the brainless, halfwit road 'workers' have dropped piles of the crap on nearly every road and pavement within a 50 mile radius.

Is this not the most lazy, dangerous, inconsiderate (but I guess cheap) form of road resurfacing known to man? It simply means every road on my way to work is 10MPH and a fOOking nightmare for the next month, I wouldn't use the Porker even if it was covered in polystyrene.

Basically we now have to wait until the gravel has moved to dangerous piles at each side of the highway before anyone can drive at any reasonable speed. then they'll close it again for a week whilst they paint on it.

inconsiderate f@ckers.

Edited by RT on Thursday 9th August 22:06

[Dave 500]

Its not just Cheshire they are doing it in Surrey as well

[Lurking Lawyer]

Ah, so THAT'S why the A54 from Congy up to Bosley Crossroads was closed recently....

There are enough potholed and broken-up roads around here to justify spending the money on proper repairs, not spraying industrial sized quantities of gravel everywhere

[steve.B]

Down in Hampshire as well, Only bonus is that everybody parks along the length of the road now which before would have carried double yellow lines. Relief on parking until the loose stone have done there damage to your cars. DO YOU THINK SOMEONES BROUGHT A JOBLOT!!!

[damiangt3]

And around Leamington Spa too

[runner911]

Just the same in Devon and Cornwall, particularly the latter.

The government rob us blind and then in conjunction with County Councils deliver the poorest possible quality roads.

What really p***es me off is speed humps. I drive a GT3 and here in Plymouth I'm effectively banned from using the car in large areas unless I am prepared to take the risk of serious damage to the front apron and the rest of the underneath of the car.

[Nippper]

Took the bike (not pedal power) for a couple of hours around the Surrey lanes tonight (i'll post the route on the Garmin site or is it only for Zumo owners??) great ride but the roads are a joke - I did'nt see any new gravel but the top surface of all roads had worn through and the rains had washed the subsurface out to form marbles at every corner - keep the psm/pasm swiched on!! - or complain to your local MP!!

regards

Nipper

[Vesuvius 996]

Nippper said:

Took the bike (not pedal power) for a couple of hours around the Surrey lanes tonight (i'll post the route on the Garmin site or is it only for Zumo owners??) great ride but the roads are a joke - I did'nt see any new gravel but the top surface of all roads had worn through and the rains had washed the subsurface out to form marbles at every corner - keep the psm/pasm swiched on!! - or complain to your local MP!!

regards

Nipper

Yeah, like writing to an MP is going to do something.


They're all too busy pulling their flaccid c0cks out of the backside of some teenage rent boy somewhere.

[Stig]

Same in Berkshire and S.Oxfordshire!

It's the same every year just to use up their budgets. Always done at THE most inappropriate times.

Do they think we're idiots?

Actually, don't answer that...

Edited by Stig on Friday 10th August 09:55

[lightweight]

Vesuvius 996 said:

Nippper said:

Took the bike (not pedal power) for a couple of hours around the Surrey lanes tonight (i'll post the route on the Garmin site or is it only for Zumo owners??) great ride but the roads are a joke - I did'nt see any new gravel but the top surface of all roads had worn through and the rains had washed the subsurface out to form marbles at every corner - keep the psm/pasm swiched on!! - or complain to your local MP!!

regards

Nipper

Yeah, like writing to an MP is going to do something.


They're all too busy pulling their flaccid c0cks out of the backside of some teenage rent boy somewhere.

I would expect an allegedly from a man of your profesion

Edited by lightweight on Friday 10th August 10:17

[Vesuvius 996]

lightweight said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

Nippper said:

Took the bike (not pedal power) for a couple of hours around the Surrey lanes tonight (i'll post the route on the Garmin site or is it only for Zumo owners??) great ride but the roads are a joke - I did'nt see any new gravel but the top surface of all roads had worn through and the rains had washed the subsurface out to form marbles at every corner - keep the psm/pasm swiched on!! - or complain to your local MP!!

regards

Nipper

Yeah, like writing to an MP is going to do something.


They're all too busy pulling their flaccid c0cks out of the backside of some teenage rent boy somewhere.

I would expect an allegedly from a man of your profesion

Edited by lightweight on Friday 10th August 10:17

[Lostusernamedamn]

The money's needed to build nice smooth roads in other poorer EU countries you see...

[Crystal Cranks]

Same excuse for a road finish done in parts of Dublin i thought it was just the councils in Ireland that were tricked into this sh?te system of road surface. Its my pet hate dont get me started.

[diver944]

It's because every August the VBRA affiliated spray painters make a sizeable donation of gravel to local councils everywhere. Keeps 'em in business over the winter months doing front end resprays

[anonymous-user]

Dave 500 said:

Its not just Cheshire they are doing it in Surrey as well

Yeah, Ockham, Send, I've just had a pop at the council about it.....twats.
Cheap and nasty surface, and whats more they are resurfacing roads with nothing wrong with them and leaving the potholed ones untouched.

[RT]

sjwright944 said:

Dave 500 said:

Its not just Cheshire they are doing it in Surrey as well

Yeah, Ockham, Send, I've just had a pop at the council about it.....twats.
Cheap and nasty surface, and whats more they are resurfacing roads with nothing wrong with them and leaving the potholed ones untouched.

odd isn't it.

Exactly the same here. The roads they have just shagged were actually ok.

I too went out on the bike and very nearly came a cropper - dangerous, bad for the paint and f@cking annoying.

The most frustrating thing is when some arse in a van or shagged out ford shopping-trolley decides to do 50 past you on the opposite side, spraying your car with freshly sharpened granite. Grrrrrrrr.

Edited by RT on Saturday 11th August 19:07