Nasty pothole

[guerney]

Lancashire county council criticised for not fixing pothole blamed for cyclist’s death
Coroner says Harry Colledge, 84, would probably be alive if council had acted on warnings about 87-metre-long crack in the road

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/15/lancashire-county-council-criticised-for-not-fixing-pothole-blamed-for-cyclist-harry-colledge-death

“Car-centric” council missed massive pothole that killed 84-year-old cyclist because “primary focus” was to identify “dangers to cars”, not bikes
The local authority is also accused of “defying logic” by claiming that the crack – visible on Google Maps since 2009 – must have closed “on its own” prior to an inspection months before Harry Colledge’s death

“Car-centric” council missed massive pothole that killed 84-year-old cyclist because “primary focus” was to identify “dangers to cars”, not bikes

The local authority is also accused of “defying logic” by claiming that the crack – visible on Google Maps since 2009 – must have closed “on its own” prior to an inspection months before Harry Colledge’s death

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[guerney]

 

[PC2017]

Some one has a cushy job at that council drawing lines, I bet they are finished by lunch and playing COD by 1pm.

Our council has an online reporting system via a sign up or not portal, it's not great but better than nowt, the last request I put in took 6 months to fix. One during Covid took a week to fix and is still in good steed today, they resurfaced the road just after the fix so it is still old road I will screen shot google maps.

 

[guerney]

Too numerous to mention, reporting them all would become a part-time admin job. Fortunately I can see potholes at night too, because of my three bright headlights. Those pictured above have beeen there for months despite reports, I can't possibly be the only one reporting. They eventually repaired around the grate in the pic below, but left the road surface untouched. Are they rationing tarmac? When there's a set of potholes, they fill one and leave the rest! Box ticked, I guess...




(a still captured from video. These aren't deep, rattle rather than roll...)

 

[lenny]

 

[PC2017]

That reminds me, one where I do not frequent. Tbf I assumed it would have been filled or repaved by now, terrible road.

 

[AndyBike]

You've really just got to keep your eyes open on the road ahead and avoid where you can. At night maybe ride familiar roads where you know where the worst are.

Lets face it, potholes are a fact of life in tory Britain.

 

[Nealh]

They wouldn't be much better under a Starma Britain.

 

[lenny]

The truth behind the “magic money tree” - Positive Money

Amber Rudd, who stood in for Theresa May on the BBC debate on 31st May had a new line of attack for Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of believing in a ‘magic money tree.’ She told the audience, ‘there is no magic money tree’. The Prime Minister Theresa May then used the same phrase in response […]

positivemoney.org

 

[pedalfettal]

Mass in running order graphic (illuminating) from ICCT European Vehicle Marketing Statistics Pocketbook.

The recent progression of road potholes is astonishing - they are appearing everywhere. Also general degradation of surfaces.

Larger SUV and EVs and LGVs obviously to blame, but is there something else?

Perhaps UK Gov mandated changes to asphalt composition?

 

[soundwave]

if you drove a 200 ton tank down the road going 140mph good luck following it

now if they made the roads the same as runways for massive planes it would last longer but no profit in it as not renewable.

 

[thelarkbox]

They woiudn't be much better under a Starma Britain.

Prove it.. go on vote him in to spite us..

 

[AndyBike]

They wouldn't be much better under a Starma Britain.

No, no money left for such projects since the tories have siphoned it all off to their mates and donors

Always the same after a few successive Tory governments. Labour comes in and theres sod all left in the kitty.

 

[PC2017]

potholes are a fact of life in tory Britain.

Starma Britain

Ooh lets make this thread a dividing political one, that'll make a change.

Yes either or, it really doesn't matter anymore, I'll vote green or draw a phallic doodle on my ballet paper, although pondering the subject, I feel that we might not get a vote if a crisis comes up, lets say a war or something. I will have to find my voter supressing ID first though.

 

[lenny]

Taxi drivers protest pothole 'nightmare' in Glasgow

Drivers told the BBC their vehicle costs are rising due to damage caused by potholes on Glasgow's roads.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[lenny]

Teenager fishes in town’s ‘plague’ of potholes

Wiltshire student, 19, says drivers have honked horns at him to support protest

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[thelarkbox]

ha 50yrs ago teens were protesting against nuclear weapon proliferation (for what good it did us) , today potholes..hopefully they will have better luck.

 

[lenny]

 

[lenny]

ha 50yrs ago teens were protesting against nuclear weapon proliferation (for what good it did us) , today potholes..hopefully they will have better luck.

 

[lenny]

Tony Blackburn outraged as car gets damaged due to 'dreadful' potholes

He's not happy.

metro.co.uk