Potholes - online notification service

pdsidd

Hi All,
Have recently discovered the wonders of potholes and have a broken wrist to show for it. Did you know that there is an online service to report them called http://www.fillthathole.org.uk you use a google map api to position a flag where to the hole is. They then inform the relevant council so they should come out and sort it. you can put an image and all sorts of details. They're a bloomin menace potholes so if you find one report it!!!

My particulare hole is at: http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/hazard/10363



This is on the Wirksworth-Ashbourne road just before you come into Ashbourne. Known locally as the Punch think it's also the B3035 ?

redddraggon

I reported loads of potholes at the end of november, still no action on them by Warrington Council.

skyway

bah £220/per year road fund license and the roads in Leeds are worse than a 3rd world country.

Dont expect miracles if you report a pothole.

palinurus

I reported one on my commute (herts) last thursday before I left work and the next morning it had been filled in.

chronyx

I tell you, it;s only when you do any serious miles on a push bike you realise how dire the roads in this country are.

Sunken drains/manholes/hatches everywhere. Coarse/rough road surfaces. Holes. Random gravel patches.

Still, I did notice al that on my weekend test ride which was a... TCR C2!!

I'm in love......

WyS

the one i reported got filled in, much to my surprise.

is worth doing..

Gerry Attrick

Still waiting for my reported crater to be fixed after eight months!

towpath hacker

pdsidd wrote:

Hi All,
Have recently discovered the wonders of potholes and have a broken wrist to show for it. Did you know that there is an online service to report them called http://www.fillthathole.org.uk you use a google map api to position a flag where to the hole is. They then inform the relevant council so they should come out and sort it. you can put an image and all sorts of details. They're a bloomin menace potholes so if you find one report it!!!

My particulare hole is at: http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/hazard/10363

This is on the Wirksworth-Ashbourne road just before you come into Ashbourne. Known locally as the Punch think it's also the B3035 ?

This is brilliant - I commute in Leeds and searched for reported hazards on my route and they've virtually all been reported (and are yet to be repaired) - I might get out with my camera and report them again, and report them direct to the Council too just to annoy them mightily

pdsidd

I contacted a legal firm about my accident as I feel I deserve compensation after hitting this pothole. They told me that it's a hard thing to get a result from as the Council's have some get-out clauses. The advice they gave me was to write a letter to the council asking the following questions:-

1). Could you provide me with details of the council's road inspection regime.
2). Has the pothole been reported by anyone else.
3). Have there been any accidents reported at the same scene.

The legal firm also told me that the Council's standard defense will be that the cyclist was not taking sufficient care, should know the road inside out, should be lit up like a christmas tree and be able to jump through hoops blindfolded and stuff.

Will let post info with how I got on but am not at all confident.

Anyway, if people have reported a pothole, the council does nothing about it and then someone hits it and is injured they have a case. I'm not sure whether anyone will have reported the one I hit but am going to find out.

Moral of story is always report the pothole. If you or another cyclist subsequently hits pothole and is injured or bike is damaged there should be reasonable grounds for compensation.

magicroundabout

Hah! Can I report my whole street?

;-)

Bikedevil

Sheffield's roads have, apparently, been declared as "beyond repair"

Positron

For the first time I've just used www.fillthathole.org.uk to report a pothole. Luckily (for me at least) I only encounter it in daylight but I recon it could have you off at night. No. 10571 if you want to go see where it is.

So exciting - I'm feeling the power. We'll see though...

p.

redjedi

I reported a hole on my commute a couple of weeks ago. It was a hole about a foot deep, right in the middle of the lane, at a junction.

I first noticed it just before Christmas, and it was still there when I went back to work.

Once I reported it, it was fixed with a couple of days.

Adamskii

One of the roads on my commute was full of pot holes it's entire length and all they did was skim over the entire surface with tar and chippings. Needless to say that didn't actually work, the holes are still their only now you can't see them as clearly and the sodding chippings are an pain to corner on! If you have the misfortune to fall, say goodbye to all your skin.

Were are these Polish workers? At least they do a decent job!

pdsidd

Adamskii wrote:

One of the roads on my commute was full of pot holes it's entire length and all they did was skim over the entire surface with tar and chippings. Needless to say that didn't actually work, the holes are still their only now you can't see them as clearly and the sodding chippings are an pain to corner on! If you have the misfortune to fall, say goodbye to all your skin.

Were are these Polish workers? At least they do a decent job!

Still report the darned things. That way if you do come a cropper on one of the holes you've reasonable grounds for compensation! You never know they might start taking the roads seriously then.