The state of our roads (potholes)

[RobPhoboS]

I'm not exactly sure where to post this but I guess this will do for now.

I'm based down in Surrey/Guildford area, the roads out here are utterly horrendous, on the verge of dangerous.
Is there anything we can actually do, apart from the typical reporting on the council sites ?
How are they were you are based ?
Do they get repaired promptly ?

[ShiggyBiggs]

Nah round here they just leave the roads with the pot holes and resurface the roads that are still ok, making them uneven.

[cardigankid]

In the centre of Glasgow you now need a 4x4 with serious off-road tyres, because apart from the potholes, some of which would tear your wheel off, in some areas they started digging the roads up in November and have just left them with manholes sticking up to 6" out of the surface.

The next joke is in today's local papers. 'Glasgow asks Government for £100m bailout to pay for fixing the roads'. They've spent all their money on bureaucrats and rock salt! The reality is that they haven't maintained the roads properly for years. That fat dhead 'Leader of the Council' Purcell was too busy shoving cocaine up his nose and doing rent boys.

Edited by cardigankid on Wednesday 12th January 09:32

[JonnyFive]

Have you seen them around Jacobs Well area?

And the one on the A3 Northbound between the Hospital on slip and Dennis' off slip, on the little bridge kind of bit? Massive and they re-Tarmac the square foot section of it ever other night as it's always there again when they've bodged it.

[anonymous-user]

http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/env/hews/hews.nsf/LERTF...

If they don't know about it, how can they fill it?

Although Surrey CC are, in my professional working experience, a bunch of s who would rather sit on every penny than spend anything on improvements. But still, report it, and then you have a leg to stand on should you damage your car. (Or you can remember where they are and avoid them)

I'm in Essex and I report maybe 3 or 4 potholes a week around here. For the most part, they are filled within a week. Sounds like a long time, but you can guarantee a good 2 working days are spent "processing" the report...

Edited by Opulent on Wednesday 12th January 08:09

[cardigankid]

Opulent said:

I'm in Essex and I report maybe 3 or 4 potholes a week around here.

You're lucky. Up here there is more pothole than road. You could report them until you are blue in the face and it would make no difference at all.

[anonymous-user]

cardigankid said:

Opulent said:

I'm in Essex and I report maybe 3 or 4 potholes a week around here.

You're lucky. Up here there is more pothole than road. You could report them until you are blue in the face and it would make no difference at all.

Then I would imagine the council would fail one or more Key Performance Indicators and would, somehow, be marked down for it. If it's Trunk Road then it's different again - the managing agent WILL get their arse kicked (by the Highways Agency) if they fail to fill.

[TonyGiles]

Opulent said:

cardigankid said:

Opulent said:

I'm in Essex and I report maybe 3 or 4 potholes a week around here.

You're lucky. Up here there is more pothole than road. You could report them until you are blue in the face and it would make no difference at all.

Then I would imagine the council would fail one or more Key Performance Indicators and would, somehow, be marked down for it. If it's Trunk Road then it's different again - the managing agent WILL get their arse kicked (by the Highways Agency) if they fail to fill.

I found out that my (then) local council wasn't actually recording reports of potholes so it couldn't be marked down. (Long story involving Freedom Of Information Requests after an accident caused by a pothole.)
Granted, they never fixed the pothole just put some of that magic white paint around it.