BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!

Subject: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 11:55 AM

Deep holes in the tarmac caused by the winter weather can damage cars and are a danger to anyone on two wheels. So a chap called Wanksy is going round paint-spraying, er, rather "active" male genitalia around the potholes. This seems to be having the effect of getting them fixed rather more quickly than they would otherwise...

One way of doing it!

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 02:19 PM

Hahaha! Wanksy!! Some of our potholes here are so large that cars fall down them. Yesterday in Norwich a small sink hole opened up and half-swallowed a car. The...er...active male genitalia would have to be drawn pretty large to encompass that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: MikeL2
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 02:26 PM

Hi sou

Where we live there are no sink holes ( yet) but many roads do have lots of smaller - but deep ones.

For example today we had to go to hospital. My wife is having problems with infections in her ears. So today as we drove we had to use several different roads all of which were terrible.

We could do with Wanksey here. All the bloated plutocrats ( The Councilors ) must use these roads so they know how bad they are ....but nothing happens. Any damage to their cars are paid for by......yes us.

Somebody's going to get killed....then what ???

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 02:34 PM

Indeed Mike, the holes are dangerous and could cause deaths. It's infuriating.
I do hope your wife got on well at the hospital and that her ear infections are soon cleared up.
Eliza

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 05:21 PM

I see potholes on Motorways. Any volunteer pavement artist in this parish?

The repair of potholes makes travel almost as bumpy, especially after chelsea tractors thunder over them at illegal speeds. And the new tarmac walks.

M5 northbound just past the entrance slipway (J11a) a bump regularly develops. It is about where the the natural geology changes to a bridge. The tarmac walks (a well known phenomenon) and has to stop, plus cars entering make others brake adding to the longitudinal force.

And since the lorry tonnage limits went to 44 and Thatcher's Reaganomics, it was a problem bound to rear up. But it takes time, and subsequent politicians' hubris piling in. It was predicted by an American pundit then, citing the effect Reagan had on Californian roads.

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 05:33 PM

That's Gloucester Services isn't it? I bought a beautiful chicken and a lovely flowery jug last Thursday northbound and another lovely chicken and some olives there last Saturday southbound. I buy all my pork there.

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 03:34 AM

the next junction north of the Tebay services.

The bloody services should have been off J12, instead we get an incinerator and an electricity cable running 4 miles and down through our town. Road up for 6 months (plus snow time!). They dug up our town to prettify it and closed the high street for a month and disrupted for 3 months, and then came back to finish the job a year later and now we have the town in disarray with single file and the main road closure for a week. Again.

And all that prettifying is now enhanced with a strip of bumpy black down the red-speckled tarmac. And out of town they can't do the seriously bumpy potholes till the diggers have long departed. Just in case.......

And they could have used the electricity generated to solidify the ash, instead of carting it 100 miles to a glassification plant. And there were shenanigans over the placing of the contract. The culprit is not there but the penalty clause is!

Joined up government? Yea, joined by graft!

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Will Fly
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 04:03 AM

Just back after three days in Dorset. On one road, the council workers were out with a moving road patching team, resurfacing patches of road about 12 feet long. A convoy trike drove up and down the road, leading motorists through the roadworks in order to protect the workforce. Very efficient, I have to say, but there were many, many potholes around in the county.

More snow this weekend, apparently, so more holes perhaps...

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 04:18 AM

Here in Norfolk, the number of new potholes is amazing. I expect the snow and low temperatures have cracked the surface and eroded the tarmac. It'll be ages before anything is done. Norfolk is very behindhand in coming forward!

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 06:55 AM

There are now 4001 in Blackburn, Lancashire. It simply won't do.

You threw me by saying M5 instead of M6 there, Mr Red. Anyway, I'm told that Tebay Services is similar to Gloucester and run by the same people. It's just that the car park's a bit draughtier.

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 06:58 AM

Well at least now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall Steve.

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 10:47 AM

Steve
how about getting a "before and after" and getting it onto Facebook and see if it goes viral

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 12:44 PM

it could be re-staged.

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 03:18 PM

When I get fed up with local potholes I log them with
https://www.fixmystreet.com/my .
They send it on to the local authority.
Then the local authority sends me a confirmation email.

It's much easier to use than the Cheshire East website.

I hear some authorities won't bother if the hole is less than 40mm. For CheshireEast it's 50mm.



https://www.potholes.co.uk/claims/step_by_step_guide 

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: BobL
Date: 18 Mar 18 - 07:24 AM

FH, shouldn't that be cm? Metrication does have a few downsides, and one of them is being out by a factor of 10 (or 100 or 1000).

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 18 Mar 18 - 07:26 AM

If we are talking depth it should be mm.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Mar 18 - 08:20 PM

Last time I reported a bad pothole, I had got out of my car to photograph it. Hit by a terrible stink and a horde of flies, I found a dead badger in very advanced stages of decomposition. So I reported both: the badger met with more interest, albeit "That will be a different department". Ok, you've guessed it: badger got removed long before pothole got filled!

Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
From: BobL
Date: 20 Mar 18 - 03:29 AM

badger got removed long before pothole got filled
So I should hope - they'd have a job doing it the other way round!

Robin, thanks for your clarification - I was thinking in terms of diameter.