roads are buggered

northernneil
northernneil Posts: 1,549
edited January 2010 in The bottom bracket
the cold weather has made pot holes twice the size and spread small bits of gravelly crap all over the roads, get ready for some bumpy rides once the cold snap finishes

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  • jimmcdonnell
    jimmcdonnell Posts: 328
    Same every year.
    Litespeed Tuscany, Hope/Open Pro, Ultegra, pulling an Extrawheel trailer, often as not.

    FCR 4 (I think?)
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    I was going to point this out the other day, its going to be a lot worse this year. I've already clattered a couple that were bad in a car let alone on a bike. Be careful.
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    I can't see the roads around here as yet, let alone the pot holes. :cry:
    Cycling weakly
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People don't know how to fix a pothole these days and / or this insufficient funds. Watched a road gang chuck some macadam in a pothole back in the summer, took them 10 minutes - went past later that night and it was already breaking up as they hadn't squared off the sides and clean it out. Once they open up they can increase massively in size literally overnight once freeze / thaw happens so won't be fun come March :shock:
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,157
    they still haven't fixed last years around here :evil:
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Pross wrote:
    People don't know how to fix a pothole these days and / or this insufficient funds. Watched a road gang chuck some macadam in a pothole back in the summer, took them 10 minutes - went past later that night and it was already breaking up as they hadn't squared off the sides and clean it out. Once they open up they can increase massively in size literally overnight once freeze / thaw happens so won't be fun come March :shock:

    There's a big hole on Hardknott that this happens to nearly every year. They cant roll it or anything and they have to walk about 300m with all the equipment to get to it so the job they do is, inevitably, shoddy.

    If you have a lot of rain after a cold snap it's generally down through the hardcore by spring. Word of warning for anytbody doing the Fred!
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    This freeze seems to have had a big impact on Cambridge roads.


    A few potholes have sprung up which engulf you entire front wheel if you're not careful.

    Never had that round here before.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Winter isn't over yet, a few more freeze/thaw cycles and the roads will look as if they've been shelled.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Cressers wrote:
    Winter isn't over yet, a few more freeze/thaw cycles and the roads will look as if they've been shelled.

    At the bridge over the River Aire at Kirstall lights in Leeds, there are now about 4 potholes next to each other - it already looks like the Somme. I might go there at quiet times for some mountain bike practice.......
    Faster than a tent.......
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    Rolf F wrote:
    Cressers wrote:
    Winter isn't over yet, a few more freeze/thaw cycles and the roads will look as if they've been shelled.

    At the bridge over the River Aire at Kirstall lights in Leeds, there are now about 4 potholes next to each other - it already looks like the Somme. I might go there at quiet times for some mountain bike practice.......

    quiet time at kirkstall lights ?
  • JamesB
    JamesB Posts: 1,184
    Yes the roads will be atrocious, surfaces breaking up all over teh place now, more like gravel tracks! Given govt cutbacks to councils / Iceland banks fiasco with councils possibly losing money (or at least the interest) I cannot see how they`re going to get the roads back into repair at all (oh yes and probable massive o/time bill for gritter drivers)!
  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    lots of potholls around geting bigger,especialy near cockworth town center.
    going downhill slowly
  • JGS
    JGS Posts: 180
    It'll all be sorted in March as local authorities rush to spend their excess budget to ensure they get the same next year. May is always fantastic round where I live as all the roads are freshly surfaced.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    edited January 2010
    JGS wrote:
    It'll all be sorted in March as local authorities rush to spend their excess budget to ensure they get the same next year. May is always fantastic round where I live as all the roads are freshly surfaced.

    I'm pretty sure local council transport/road/etc budgets are determined every 4 years by the Local Transport Plan. Not every year.

    That was certainly the case when I worked with the transport section of my local council.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • JamesB
    JamesB Posts: 1,184
    JGS wrote:
    It'll all be sorted in March as local authorities rush to spend their excess budget to ensure they get the same next year. May is always fantastic round where I live as all the roads are freshly surfaced.

    I do hope so--round here tehy seem to dig up same bits of road each March to get rid of underspend but I can`t see how there will be any this year.....22 continuous days of gritting due to snow / ice must have damaged any underspend
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    They're talking about them on the news now. Inlcuding a few motorists moaning about them.

    Apparently, the average council budget per year for potholes is £300,000 and each pothole costs between £50-£100 to sort out.

    The ice has created approx. 1,000,000 new potholes according to the dude getting interviewed. Sounds like there might just be enough money to cover it all, but it makes you wonder if they actually use all that money every year, looking at the state of some of the UK roads. That's 3000-6000 potholes they should be sorting out. Do they really do that many? I doubt it.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    teagar wrote:
    JGS wrote:
    It'll all be sorted in March as local authorities rush to spend their excess budget to ensure they get the same next year. May is always fantastic round where I live as all the roads are freshly surfaced.

    I'm pretty sure local council transport/road/etc budgets are determined every 4 years by the Local Transport Plan. Not every year.

    That was certainly the case when I worked with the transport section of my local council.

    Gosh. is there anything you don't know ?
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Harrow Council in north-west London said engineers estimated a £2 million bill for repairs when the ice finally thaws, double that for the cold snap in February last year.

    Buckinghamshire Council is paying an extra £18,000 per week for six extra repair gangs, on top of its usual nine teams, and a spokeswoman said it is "already over budget" on its £1.2 million allocation for road maintenance.

    A Department for Transport spokeswoman said: "We want local authorities to implement a system of regular, well-managed maintenance - not to leave things until they deteriorate to the point that repairs become urgent and more costly.

    http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-lo ... -25585065/
  • berliner
    berliner Posts: 340
    "Excuse me Sir, have you had an accident recently?"
    Yet more insurance claims
  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    Someone on the audax sites I know of went front wheel first into a pothole on a descent recently. Perforated colon,some spleen/liver injuries and facial injuries. That's his first few months over.
    M.Rushton

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