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Anyone else starting to get sick of them?
 
Oh yes. The A605 around here has pot "Trenches" never mind holes.

at least there is a section of road closed off this friday night, perhaps they're going to fill them, it won't be a small undertaking!
 
Yip.....I find I have to car slalom way too often. I hit once last night at a junction and was convinced I cracked the alloy.
 
ypu there is one road and its a mile long roughly and there was around 700 potholes yes 700 and it was reported in the local paper and this was due to the weather last year and only got fixed in august last year and guess what they have all come back again

every corner speed bump and road around here has them it is bad im sure i will need another set of shocks this year and problally tyres too
 
After last year's snow, the local council had some of the potholes filled - didn't take long before the filling had all fallen out and the rrecent weather has done the holes even more no good.
 
be lucky you got tarmac, growing up in Kenya i know what pot holes are, what i have seen here are whats considered a good road in Kenya.
 
BandyQuill said:
yep there crippling in my mini with runflats, its like my spine goes through my skull everytime XD
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tell me about it.. im just about to replace the dampers and top mounts on the ibiza, sounds like my engine is about to fall out when i hit a hole.

its a disgrace concidering how much we pay in motoring taxes.

also i think utility companies that rip up the road willy nilly need shooting.
 
Starting to get very annoyed with them. Having stiff suspension only makes it worse! Not fun driving to work and back!!
 
Sort of come to expect them on most roads but they're starting to appear on motorways now - third world comes to mind, not to mention road tax!
 
I understand that if the pothole isn't reported to the council (for local roads) then you can't put a claim in but if it is reported I think you can (although they'll try their hardest to get out of it! lol).

Does anyone know how long they have to fix the hole? I'm sure it was 2 weeks but this may have changed/be a myth?

I've also heard they try and get out of it by saying the road is surveyed regularly etc - but the crater near my work has been there for over three months and we almost had 50 tonnes tipping over onto its side yesterday!!!!
 
I sent a stinking email to Surrey CC yesterday reporting a stretch on the A264. It's the same spot that always ends up bad, but they insist on simply filling them. What the road needs its a resuface. They claim budget won't allow a resurface, but I doubt anyone as bothered to look at how much they have spent keep doing small repairs.
 
Hit a huge pothole on Tuesday near Salisbury. It instantly wrecked my front tyre which ran flat, 1/2 mile before I could find somewhere safe to pull over and swap the wheel. I think the alloy is ok.

Checking sizes last night and the rear tyre has a huge bulge in the sidewall as well. Sigh.
 
Exectly Neil. It's got to be a classic examble of "cost saving" shortsightedness. They are looking at saving on cashflow short term, rather than looking at the longer term impact.

Byker, make sure you claim. You have nowt to loose.
 
Rob.Marsh said:
I sent a stinking email to Surrey CC yesterday reporting a stretch on the A264. It's the same spot that always ends up bad, but they insist on simply filling them. What the road needs its a resuface. They claim budget won't allow a resurface, but I doubt anyone as bothered to look at how much they have spent keep doing small repairs.
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alot less

to fill a small hole in ( go kart track near us ) it was £150 for a small hole

so wouldnt like to think how much a resurface would be

removing the old and replacing the new
 
Byker28i said:
Hit a huge pothole on Tuesday near Salisbury. It instantly wrecked my front tyre which ran flat, 1/2 mile before I could find somewhere safe to pull over and swap the wheel. I think the alloy is ok.

Checking sizes last night and the rear tyre has a huge bulge in the sidewall as well. Sigh.
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****! £150 per tyre. <insert very rude word here>

Been onto the council to report it "Oh yeah, we've had quite a few complaints about that one"

So how about sticking it on the priority list then?
 
wegotitugetit said:
alot less

to fill a small hole in ( go kart track near us ) it was £150 for a small hole

so wouldnt like to think how much a resurface would be

removing the old and replacing the new
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I hear what you are saying pal, but then factor in the size, and quantity of potholes over the stretch I mentioned. Plus damages claims, and all the cost to process those claims, as well as the payout themselves. The repeated repairs, as the have been filled several times over. The background costs processing the repairs, it's not simply labour and materials of the guy who does it. Background admin costs etc too.


It would be an Interesting exercise to see the figures compared over say a 2 year period. Sure, a resurface will mean a larger initial outlay of money.
 
A stretch of one of the roads here was resurfaced last year, approx 1/2 mile in length and is still in good condition. The "Patch" they resurfaced stopped, no more than 2 feet from a large pot hole. Why didn't they extend the "Patch" by 2 feet to rectify the issue?

instead 2 months later they (over) filled said pot hole and it has since been repaired at least 3 times.

As mentioned above, this has to be cost saving short sightedness, or simply stupidity ?
 
Potholes???!!!

They're nothing compared to this:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravese...january/1/homes_evacuated_after_collapse.aspx

http://www.gravesendreporter.co.uk/what-s-on/travel/meopham_road_collapse_chaos_1_765907

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-12104875 (ignore the article in that one - it's just the picture!)

Has been like that since NYE - I drove over it a few hours before the road collapsed - and yes, I've heard all the jokes!

Got at least another week til the road opens. Causing chaos for us as we have to get off the coach, walk half a mile through mud and crap to get on the next coach lol

The A227 is the main route from my village to the A2, the train stations, etc etc
 
AndrewA123 said:
A stretch of one of the roads here was resurfaced last year, approx 1/2 mile in length and is still in good condition. The "Patch" they resurfaced stopped, no more than 2 feet from a large pot hole. Why didn't they extend the "Patch" by 2 feet to rectify the issue?

instead 2 months later they (over) filled said pot hole and it has since been repaired at least 3 times.

As mentioned above, this has to be cost saving short sightedness, or simply stupidity ?
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I'ts not a county boundry is it? The A264 is a patchwork of road surfaces where the Sussex/Surrey border snakes over it. The two councils only to thier "patch".
 
Rob.Marsh said:
I'ts not a county boundry is it? The A264 is a patchwork of road surfaces where the Sussex/Surrey border snakes over it. The two councils only to thier "patch".
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no its not, I did wonder at first, but as it happens its only about 3 miles into Cambridgeshire (from Northamptonshire).
But very much inside of Cambridgeshire.
 
Sick of them.

Hit one in the middle lane of the A1(M) north of Ferrybridge that I thought had just well and truly dudes my car up.
 
Potholes have to be reported to be fixed. I have found the site fillthathole to be quite good. All the defects I found were fixed within a few weeks. It seems to get a better response than fixmystreet and the map pinpointing is much better.

If the hole is less than a certain size then they don't really have to be fixed. I think they have to be more than 3cm deep for a start. You need ones that are large or dangerous. Mentioning how they could injure a cyclist or pedestrian is usually the best way to get councils to do something. Damage to vehicles isn't on their radar as it might cost them a few hundred quid but a PI claim from a cyclist could run into thousands.

It's amazing how many people bitch and moan abut the state of the roads but answer no when I ask them if they've reported the holes. If you don't report them, nothing will happen!
 
neil_g said:
tell me about it.. im just about to replace the dampers and top mounts on the ibiza, sounds like my engine is about to fall out when i hit a hole.

its a disgrace concidering how much we pay in motoring taxes.

also i think utility companies that rip up the road willy nilly need shooting.
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Problem is, motoring taxes go into the general pot with everything else. Your council tax pays for the majority of roads to be repaired.. which means that even non-motorists pay too.

Have to agree with the utility companies though.. once a certain amount of repairs done to a stretch of road then they all chip in to pay for a resurface. Or something.
 
I hit these two late at night in Tring, Herts ripped a big hole in the side wall of a £80 tyre with around 500 miles run :shake:

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Awaiting a reply from the council to see if they will pay :shrug:

Mick
 
The lovely freeze/thaw process in action!!!

it is awful.

I was under the impression that if the council knew of them, they had a certain amount of time to fix them and during this time, they can't be sued.

However, if they are unaware of them, then you can ask to damages.

I'm probably wrong though!
 
Don't get me started on potholes....

This happened down Latimer Road in Amersham, Bucks.

From this (although been filled in since I hit it with the stones!)

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To this

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To this

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srichards said:
Potholes have to be reported to be fixed...

...It's amazing how many people bitch and moan abut the state of the roads but answer no when I ask them if they've reported the holes. If you don't report them, nothing will happen!
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I was under the impression that the council were supposed to perform routine inspection of the roads and repair any defects? A new pothole I can understand, but most of these have been around for a good few months now.

I think a lot of people probably forget the exact location of the pothole or perhaps by the time they reach their destination they've forgotton about it altogether - only to be reminded on their return journey! lol

I've report three major ones this week. There was also a large stretch of road on Great Western Road (3 lane dual carriageway) where the middle lane was totally knackered and people were swerving all the time. I think there's CCTV though which explains why it's finally been [badly] repaired. Part of it is anti-skid material but they just used ordinary stuff to repair it :cuckoo:
 
Councils do routine inspections but some roads might only be checked annually or twice annually so it's well worth reporting them.

I don't always remember to do so but if everyone reported just the one hole each then it would make quite a lot of difference.

I think there are iphone apps that let you report a hole more simply but not everyone has an iphone.

I'd like to fit a gps logger and a rough road detector to my car. I'd end up sending hundreds of crap road reports every day!
 
Same here, even considering raising the hight :O Maybe even put standard shocks back on :(

My mum had to do a speed awareness course last year and they said that the councils would rather pay for a few repairs on badly damaged cars that have solid evidence that it was caused by their neglect as its much cheaper than resurfacing all the roads and that potholes basically do the same job as a hump anyway.

I hit one on the M25 that cracked my windscreen.

Getting dangerous now though.
 
specialman said:
Sick of them.

Hit one in the middle lane of the A1(M) north of Ferrybridge that I thought had just well and truly dudes my car up.
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The A1 is absolutely shocking - I drove from Edinburgh to Durham and back over Christmas, and some stretches of the road were horrendous. Especially around Alnwick where it was down to one lane anyway due to roadworks. This is one of the main North-South routes in the country and I've driven better maintained single track highland roads. Poor Car's suspension took a battering.

Edinburgh is a mess too.
 
Am I the only one who is starting to wonder where the hell all our money is going?
 
On a section of the main A1 dual carriageway close to us it was planed and resurfaced about 6 years ago iirc, last year it was patched because of the peviouse winter and now the rest of the surface is breaking up. They have now decided on a 30 week job to do a deep plane of 500mm this time rather than skim about 100 mm off.

In the meantime we are down to a single carriageway and that has become so bad that it activated the airbags on one car that could very easily have had fatal circumstances, the answer to this was to reduce that section down to 30 from 50, the road is still in the same condition !!.
 
My sister has just had to have a new spring and a rod thing that had cracked. When the AA came out to look at it they said they'd been out to loads of cars in the Lancaster area with broken springs.
 
Wait until Public Sector cuts kick in, it's only going to get worse.....

And BTW, they do any me but I don't report them...:cuckoo:
 
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