are cunts.
This is an ongoing issue and the absolute bugbear of any road user who has the misfortune to have to drive ( or be driven ) over these ploughed fields masquerading as roads.
Quite apart from the danger of a collision if someone unexpectedly jinks into your path trying to avoid one, there’s the issue of potentially expensive damage to your vehicle should you hit one.
Not to worry, you can always claim from the council can’t you?
Wrong! They have the perfect loophole.
You can’t claim if the pothole is
A. Scheduled for repair, or
B. Hasn’t been reported, so they didn’t know about it.
Got you coming and going, haven’t they? How do you disprove either scenario?
As a matter of interest, the Telegraph has published an article about this, which is behind a pay wall on line, but mentioned that those whose claims were successful are those on two-wheeled transport who suffered significant injury.
Nominated by Jeezum Priest.
There aren’t many countries that suffer from the amount of potholes that you seem to have, and there aren’t many countries where the motorists are squeezed so hard for road tax.
Your money is obviously going to the Support a Pákí fund.
It’s odd that cyclists are the ones that can receive compensation as they don’t contribute to the upkeep of the roads at all.
Airports have it sussed out.
You can’t land an airplane on a runway full of potholes and you can’t have runways shut for regular maintenance.
The technology is there but local councils won’t spend your money on it.
Good morning!
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Give this fat pàki a call JP.
https://x.com/i/status/2011804936703537434
No job to big, all girls schools get a discount.
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That’s a terrible repair Barry.
It doesn’t look like it will last a week, and the council seem to be proud of their work!
How many people would regularly use a track in a cemetery anyway.
The cunt could have posted about a repair on a road that people actually use.
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Oh the comments are a treat.
Bravo sir.
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Potholes?
Forget about them,the money has already been spent on a very large variety of wòg “schemes”.
Oddly enough it would be the source of some amusement if the officials and their foreign chums were drowned in a boiling vat of tarmac then spread across the damage to our public carriageways.
Good morning.
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The UK talk about potholes as if they are an act of God, mysteriously appearing in unexpected places.
They are a result of fucking useless materials being used by shoddy workers.
You can’t patch up a road, you have to completely resurface an entire stretch.
Do it once and do it right.
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Has your Council declared a Climate Emergency yet JP, and if not why not?
Most Councils are too busy saving the planet and cancelling elections to bother with filling in potholes.
Priorities old boy, priorities.
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There are certain areas of Sheffield where a pothole is a source of wonder, so rarely do they appear.
I don’t want to say that these are places where people of influence live.
You might think that, I couldn’t possibly comment.
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Usually, in discussions about potholes, there’s always someone who’ll mention that councils always find money and tarmac for speed humps.
An old chestnut indeed, but I can go one better.
Where I live, we’ve got speed humps with potholes in them, especially on the leading edges.
So what was once a gradient requiring an approach of 20 odd mph, becomes one requiring speeds in single figures.
One posh area has humps made of granite blocks. Very picturesque.
At least until the blocks got ripped out and it’s now like driving over the Himalayas.
Still, at least the new and utterly pointless cycle lanes are nice and level.
All at a cost per mile that makes HS2 look like value for money.
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There’s another side effect of this problem in my area.
The presence of park keys.
As we all know, their biggest fears are dogs and their mates finding out they’ve never shagged a 12 year old. But we can also list speed humps and potholes to the list.
Get stuck behind one of them and expect your journey time to quadruple.
Some go so slow over speed humps and uneven roads, that they almost stall.
Fucking pain in the arse.
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Well they wouldn’t want to bruise the 12 year olds they’ve got tied up in the boot now, would they.
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I’d not thought of that, Odin.
Maybe they fear the boot will spring open, like in the films.
Only to see something akin to the cast of Grange Hill clambering out and running for safety.
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Meanwhile, the Japanese can repair a pothole in live traffic with six road cones and a sign in half an hour.
They even managed to repair a sink hole that swallowed a truck in two days.
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Indeed Odin, the nips rebuilt much of Hiroshima by the 1950’s too.
I was watching a random YouTube video the other day and their motorways have a system called shosetsu which is pumping warm groundwater through underground pipes and spraying it on the roads using sprinklers to prevent them freezing.
Obviously it wouldn’t work here with us having the ‘wrong’ kind of snow.
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