the most pot-holed street in London is...

hamboman
hamboman Posts: 512
edited September 2007 in Commuting chat
Conduit Street, Mayfair

Is it just me, or is this the WORST street in London for potholes? Fell into one yesterday evening and it nearly threw me off! Anyone else been this way? Anyone else got any votes for the most bumpy street in London?

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  • WyS
    WyS Posts: 254
    brick lane.
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  • Eat My Dust
    Eat My Dust Posts: 3,965
    In NW London, there's holes so big you can't see the bottom of them!!!
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  • RossC
    RossC Posts: 38
    Chancery Lane
    part Camden, part Westminster, part City
    total moonscape
  • houghamnick
    houghamnick Posts: 27
    I will second Chancery Lane, especially going away from Holborn! Nightmare in the dark :evil:
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,967
    When I worked in London the Strand was phenomenal, they bodged it and bodged it again and again - is it any better now?

    Thye holes they filled, would then be driven over by buses, and would take the shape of the buses wheel, so much so that if it were near the kerb, the tarmac would migrate upto the pavement - genius.

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  • Cyclegent
    Cyclegent Posts: 601
    A lot of the Mayfair streets seem quite bad, especially around the Hanover Square/Conduit Street sort of area, and also just north of Oxford Street around Wigmore St. Maybe it's all the 4x4s and arab wagons?
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  • rjeffroy
    rjeffroy Posts: 638
    Upper Thames Street westbound resembles a rutted dirt track - unbelievable considering it is the main highway through the richest local authority in the country.
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  • Chriscommuter
    Chriscommuter Posts: 238
    Townmead Road......2 miles of bone shaking, teeth rattling, ball-breaking hell.

    Fell into one of the pot holes when i was 40, got out last week in time for my 47th birthday.
    17 years commuting up and down the King\'s Road and i still don\'t get faster...
  • homercles
    homercles Posts: 499
    Theobalds Road between Gray's Inn Rd and Holborn - the whole thing is like an off road section on 25mm tyres.
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  • RossC
    RossC Posts: 38
    houghamnick wrote:
    I will second Chancery Lane, especially going away from Holborn! Nightmare in the dark :evil:

    but it's one way northbound, towards Holborn - no wonder it's a "nightmare"
    Daniel B wrote:
    When I worked in London the Strand was phenomenal, they bodged it and bodged it again and again - is it any better now?

    yes, as long as you can cope with the occasional blockage caused by the central reservation nearly all the way down (to improve pedestrians crossing)

    Trafalgar Square, however, seems to based on several bottomless pits where the tarmac disappears down slowly, leaving strategically placed hazards every so often

    that and the red light many seem to miss between Northumberland Avenue and Cockspur Street, and the right turning buses in the nearside lane going from Strand to Cockspur across The Mall exit, and the apparently unsignalled northbound on St Martin's Place at Duncannon Street
    rjeffroy wrote:
    Upper Thames Street westbound resembles a rutted dirt track - unbelievable considering it is the main highway through the richest local authority in the country.

    it's a Transport for London road innit? report it via https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/re ... fault.aspx anyway and they'll pass it on to t'City if it's theirs
    Cyclegent wrote:
    A lot of the Mayfair streets seem quite bad, especially around the Hanover Square/Conduit Street sort of area, and also just north of Oxford Street around Wigmore St

    definitley Westminster streets, but can still report it via tfl

    what are
    Cyclegent wrote:
    arab wagons?

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