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Title: Roads finally getting fixed.
Post by: Bellend on 30 July 2011, 12:56
 :cool:

Anyone else noticed this? Loads of roads in the Bexley and Bromley council are all getting resurfaced, including my road which is big and long and full of potholes. Absolutely knackering the cars, every bush on my car has suffered and are all knackered as a result.

But driving up my road today and they've surfaced the bottom end, so nice.  :cool:

Anyone else noticed the councils finally getting on it? We've had a pothole that would ground out a stock height MK3 since before christmas and it's finally gone.  :cool:
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Post by: Mitching on 30 July 2011, 12:57
including my road which is big and long and full of potholes.
I read this imagining a 2 year old had written it.
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Post by: luke on 30 July 2011, 12:59
there's a big groove in the road in burbage, didn't realise how bad it dipped and it smacked on my sump and tow eyes
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Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 30 July 2011, 13:03
My road was entirely resurfaced after I complained of the ineptitude of the workers patching up the holes/scars. The repair would literally last for 3 days, then they'd come back and do it all over again.

Now its all shiny smooth bitumen.
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Post by: Mikester on 30 July 2011, 13:08
The repair would literally last for 3 days, then they'd come back and do it all over again.

IMO this is the problem.

Plus have you noticed that they build the repair up really high, maybe to last longer when they wear/sink?

So you go from a hole to an equally as high bump? lol.
Title: Re: Roads finally getting fixed.
Post by: Bellend on 30 July 2011, 14:03
The repair would literally last for 3 days, then they'd come back and do it all over again.

IMO this is the problem.

Plus have you noticed that they build the repair up really high, maybe to last longer when they wear/sink?

So you go from a hole to an equally as high bump? lol.

Noticed this, the amount of groves in the middle of the road where the lines are in insane. Car proper follows them like it's on a track as well.
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Post by: Gavv8 on 30 July 2011, 17:19
Fair bit of work going on around devon/somerset recently, trouble is then all the shed draggers come down, crash and ruin it all again.
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Post by: Seanl on 30 July 2011, 19:55
The roads round here were seriously bad after winter. There is now a massive resurfacing programme going on, so some parts are nice and new, but its takes them so fecking long, and when they take the old tarmac up, they leave it for about a fortnight, so all the raised drains and access hatches are massively raised, and cause even more damage than the potholes did in the first place! Getting there slowly but the roads are jam packed at all hours and are in a even worse state than they were in the beginning.  :angry:
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Post by: raferackstraw on 30 July 2011, 22:12
The roads round here were seriously bad after winter. There is now a massive resurfacing programme going on, so some parts are nice and new, but its takes them so fecking long, and when they take the old tarmac up, they leave it for about a fortnight, so all the raised drains and access hatches are massively raised, and cause even more damage than the potholes did in the first place! Getting there slowly but the roads are jam packed at all hours and are in a even worse state than they were in the beginning.  :angry:
lol you live in plymouth, roads jam packed at all hours? bollocks mate  :grin: try london mate potholes and ridges that would make dartmoor look like a billiard table  :angry:
Title: Re: Roads finally getting fixed.
Post by: Seanl on 30 July 2011, 22:24
The roads round here were seriously bad after winter. There is now a massive resurfacing programme going on, so some parts are nice and new, but its takes them so fecking long, and when they take the old tarmac up, they leave it for about a fortnight, so all the raised drains and access hatches are massively raised, and cause even more damage than the potholes did in the first place! Getting there slowly but the roads are jam packed at all hours and are in a even worse state than they were in the beginning.  :angry:
lol you live in plymouth, roads jam packed at all hours? nuts mate  :grin: try london mate potholes and ridges that would make dartmoor look like a billiard table  :angry:

Fair one!  :grin: Its only single lane getting out of the city centre is all, and half of that is being done at a time so traffic lights for 1 lane for 2 directions of traffic, its a fecking nightmare! I get pissed off with people leaving car length gaps in the traffic tbf so when it comes to jams, I start turning green and get all angry and hulk like!  :angry: :grin:
Title: Re: Roads finally getting fixed.
Post by: gti gaz on 31 July 2011, 10:39
same sh!t diffrent day in cornwall so many people down ere this year if you try and close a road it just causes mayhem, almost all roads are grid locked from 9am till about 7pm everyday, just glad they all stick to main roads or it would take us hours to get anyware.  but still pot holes everyware my gti is only lowered 20mm and still hit my sump about 6 times in 2 months had to replace most of my bushes again  at the start of this year might start sending my parts bills to the council from now on then they might start to sort them out. rant over lol
but we have about 5 realy good roads near to ware i live so when you get pissed right off with all the above we just simply nail the tits off our gtis on these
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Post by: Wazzzer on 31 July 2011, 13:29
The iow has some of the worst roads in the UK
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Post by: JC on 31 July 2011, 13:31
The iow has some of the worst roads in the UK

dont think anyone will DISAGREE with that  :laugh: :grin:
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Post by: stealthwolf on 31 July 2011, 15:48
I've noticed a helluva lot road surface improvements ove the past week. PITA as it means tar and stone chips over the car!  :cry:
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Post by: THE_Liam on 31 July 2011, 17:35
Nothings getting fixed in Leeds, just patched here and there  :angry:
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Post by: Gavv8 on 31 July 2011, 17:38
same sh!t diffrent day in cornwall so many people down ere this year if you try and close a road it just causes mayhem, almost all roads are grid locked from 9am till about 7pm everyday, just glad they all stick to main roads or it would take us hours to get anyware.  but still pot holes everyware my gti is only lowered 20mm and still hit my sump about 6 times in 2 months had to replace most of my bushes again  at the start of this year might start sending my parts bills to the council from now on then they might start to sort them out. rant over lol
but we have about 5 realy good roads near to ware i live so when you get pissed right off with all the above we just simply nail the tits off our gtis on these
The atlantic highway between wadebridge and bude....epic fun.
Title: Re: Roads finally getting fixed.
Post by: Wazzzer on 31 July 2011, 17:40
The iow has some of the worst roads in the UK

dont think anyone will DISAGREE with that  :laugh: :grin:

You liked our lack of road surface over here then
Title: Re: Roads finally getting fixed.
Post by: gti gaz on 31 July 2011, 22:32
Will have a look over there soon gavv
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Post by: Screech16v on 01 August 2011, 21:51
Up here in the north staffs they just surface dress which means lowered ironworks (man made pot holes) and grit everywhere ,they have done it all over the place the last few weeks and my wheels and bonnet are now peppered with stonechips  :sad: ,what ever happened to proper tarmac,probably cost to much  :rolleyes: