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Thread #163799   Message #3911282
Posted By: Mr Red
15-Mar-18 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
Subject: RE: BS: Direct action - get your potholes fixed!
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.