ludwig Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Let me know if there is already a thread open on this topic .... Watch out for damage to your wheels caused by potholes. My youngest son's Fiesta hit one at the weekend - he needed a new front nearside wheel. New wheel £128 - much cheaper than VW! The Bridgestone tyre was ok, amazingly. He lives in the Guildford area. He says he has never seen the roads in such bad condition. The RAC patrol that came to fit his spare said that at the moment, 8 out of 10 calls were to do with pothole damage to the car! If this happens to you you might like to look at Potholes.co.uk - Home Page I am of the opinion that if we claim against the councils, it may encourage them to do something to fix our roads! Could it be that they think that the cost of compensating people is cheaper than sending a team out to fill the pothole? Ludwig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Maybe it's just that after such a freak period of weather the roads have generally suffered through frost damage and there are more new potholes than the councils can quickly mend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byron13 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Personally I think most councils have been skimping on road repairs over the last few years (mine certainly has according to local press etc) and this latest cold snap has just made it worse. Unfortunately I suspect most will NOT have the budget for these repairs so suggest we will have to live with lots of them for years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Have to learn to weave more by the sounds of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Dodging the potholes is easy enough in daylight but they can be hard to see at night. Some of the ones local to me are more like gulleys and if you were to hit them on a bike you would be off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 (edited) The Mrs burst a tyre on her Polo a couple of weeks ago, and I burst a tyre and cracked an alloy on one last week. It years of chronic under funding that is to blame, all the older repairs ( >10 years old) are still holding good, it's the recent stuff done to a sub standard quality that is falling apart, they used to seal the edge of repairs or works to the road with tar, hence the shiny strip round patches on the road, it stopped the water getting in and then freezing and lifting the surface, they don't do that any more. They just pour bags of ready made tarmac into the holes, and flatten them, rather than doing it properly, the hole I hit, has been filled, and not even 2 days later, it has a hole in it itself. And not even just potholes, where they've resurfaced some roads, the whole new surface has disappeared in places for stretches measuring in metres, revealing the old surface underneath, and piles of 'marbles' or gravel from the 'new' surface neatly piled in strips in the middle of the road, it seems that resurfacing a road these days entails simply laying an inch of new tar over the top of the existing surface. Saw a biker today, weaving around these potholes and stripped bits of road, his path inevitably led him into the the centre of the road, where he looked like he was riding on ice as the bike just slithered around on the gravel, still not sure how he managed not to drop it, he was very much sideways which on a bike, I'm led to believe is not fun. Utterly ridiculous. Edited January 25, 2010 by Tipex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Personally I think most councils have been skimping on road repairs over the last few years (mine certainly has according to local press etc) and this latest cold snap has just made it worse. Unfortunately I suspect most will NOT have the budget for these repairs so suggest we will have to live with lots of them for years to come. The highways departments just aren't given enough money, year on year they are subjected to extra cuts but they actually need more money not less. Saying you will spend more money on roads doesn't win votes though, giving more to schools and hospitals etc. does. Roads are going to be the railways of past decades, years of under funding with a massive injection in money required to get them back to top quality again. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ttm4son Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Interestingly our road tax has been soaring though. Why do we pay that again? To fix the roads perchance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Saw this on a regional news website. I bet every council will be hiding behind this. POTHOLES: Compensation claims likely to fail (From Banbury Cake) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludwig Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Paul, thanks for this. Very interesting. But this should not put us off from still lodging claims - which is what the councils want I guess. Ludwig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TP27 Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 I'm sure many many motorists would have a different view on speeding fines, parking charges, VED etc. if they were confident that the monies raised were put back into quality road development and upkeep, rather than for propping up the Treasury and subsidising the welfare state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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