Bad road repairs!!

Eat My Dust

The last mile of my commute has recently had lots of work done on it, it has taken several months. The road works (pipe laying I think) have now finished and they've relaid the tarmac. The problem is that it's bumpy as hell. The section that has been relaid cover secondary and primary positioning for cyclists, so if you want a smooth bit of road you're either right in the gutter or nearly on the white lines. I usually come down this part of the road at close to 30mph but now anything above 18mph feels like your teeth are going to fall out. Is there anybody you can complain to about this?

Gambatte

try going through the CTC website and the 'fill that hole' link. Its not just for potholes

el_presidente

try the junction of High Holborn & KIngsway, it's like a tough section of Paris-Roubaix. Even the buses get bounced about.

always_tyred

Subcontracting.

Similar to the road repairs near me - 12 months old and now worse than before, because they appeared to have been smoothed down by someone wearing tennis shoes and were therefore the perfect launch pad to get car suspension resonating.

Its easy to undercut the competition if you don't finish the work and no one comes to check.

John B

I reported a swine of a pothole via the CTC link and it was repaired in about ten days. Mind you it could have been already scheduled but I like to think, every time I ride over it, that it was all down to me. My family are well sick of me pointing it out if we are ever driving over it as well. A couple of real craters on the Uxbridge Road in W3 are next on my list.

hoathy

The state of roads was what put me off road riding for (and IN hospital) for good. If you think you have it bad, try visiting the isle of wight! every road is crap!

Do you ever find the paint on roads annoying? Like where they have yellow zig zags in thick paint, it makes it quite bumpy...

mr_hippo

Just two examples of Bangkok road repairs near my home - the second repair is just where the pick-up truck is in the first photo. Both repairs seem to be precast storm gulleys. The one in the top photo has now been improved by adding tarmac and making it into a ski-jump!

BentMikey

My pet hate used to be the A202 between Peckham and Camberwell, that section was like riding a jackhammer. I'm glad they've finally resurfaced it now.

always_tyred

mr_hippo wrote:

Just two examples of Bangkok road repairs near my home - the second repair is just where the pick-up truck is in the first photo. Both repairs seem to be precast storm gulleys. The one in the top photo has now been improved by adding tarmac and making it into a ski-jump!

Looks like the roof of a car that has fallen into the pothole to me. Jesus.

fossyant

Exactly the same near me.....the gas mains road repairs are really poor - secondary/primary, very bumpy on the MTB, dangerous on the road bike. They are that bad they grab my cars tyres and pull if off line - a heavy mid sized saloon...

I can't believe some of these repairs are allowed, I used to work for a water utility company, and we made sure these were put right first time.

Alibran

Where I live, the road surfaces in general are terrible. The prefered method for resurfacing any road seems to be to spread chippings on top of the tar, don't roll them in, and leave a "loose chippings" sign up for a couple of weeks. The surface is just unpleasantly rough to ride over for a while. Then, after a few months, the top layer of chippings start to come off, leaving a patchy surface that rattles your bike to bits. There's one hill near here that I have to ride down very slowly because everything's blurred from the constant rattling if I try to ride any faster.