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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THIRD world repair for a Third world city..!
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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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I’d pay for the gas to heat the vat, fuck it the tar as well. Can I throw them in? I’ve got a pikey tarmac rake if that helps?
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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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Totally agree AC. The stretch of road at the end of my side street was resurfaced about 10 years ago. Took the old surface right off, proper job. Road was shut for almost two weeks. Like a snooker table when finished, all manholes, drain covers etc done proper like. Fucking blissful driving on that stretch. In the last 10 years we have suffered the awful curse of rampant building. In the past 6 years this fucking stretch of road has suffered from the endless need for utilities for these fucking houses and estates. Thus there is not a 10 foot stretch that has not been dug up. The surface is a mass of collapsing infills, pisspoor patch surfacing and now worse than it was before total refurbishment. What a load of bollocks.
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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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Our elder was working in Osaka in 2006 LL. She told us of how good the infrastructure was amongst other things. The trains in particular ran at 200mph and were never late. Useful to her was the fact that at major traffic nodes signs were in English as well as Japanese.
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Its a different planet arfur.
BBCNews
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Oops link not available…It was the story from a few years ago where the train company sincerely apologised for the inconvenience of a train leaving twenty seconds early. They would be committing Harakiri on a normal day over here.
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Ah, yes. The wrong kind of snow, the wrong kind of sun and the wrong kind of leaves on the line.
The last time we had a decent bit of snow, the Eurostar stopped running out of England because the wrong kind of snow (the lights fluffy stuff) was being sucked into the electric motor intakes.
Down tool! One out all out, brothers.
The French just screwed a couple of Hessian sacks over the intakes and carried on the service as usual.
As a country, we truly are fucked.
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Plenty of potholes around here and a set of ‘temporary’ traffic lights, due to road subsidence, which have been there for eight years and counting.
The council, however, are more interested in new speed cameras, the new yellow type on high poles which also check average speed. Plenty of money for these it seems.
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It’s no wonder councils don’t have money for pot holes, after spending on diversity and inclusion, ethnic celebrations and the fact that half the residents are on benefits, not much left for roads.
Not to worry the new JCB advert shows how it can be done, well hard init
https://youtu.be/63G3N51IuGo
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I notice Soi, that the machine is used actually to raze off the surface around the hole not just pour in tarmac and roll it. Obviously the way to do the job properly.
JCB’s plant in Rocester used to be a regular call of mine in the ’70s. Some impressive kit there. Made my car look like a toy.
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That’s how it’s done here Arfur.
A section of road will have temporary no parking signs put out the day before.
The road crews turn up with their fucking huge equipment as it gets dark.
The entire road surface is removed and a sort of ‘scratch coat’ is left behind.
Then they resurface.
When you get up the following morning and use the road you will have a perfect surface.
They can easily do a kilometre of road overnight.
If that can be done in a country where the road tax is about 60 euros a year, then why not in the UK?
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The purpose of chicanes and humps is to give the plebeians who prefer travelling in their car a fucking hard time. It follows that since potholes achieve the same aim leaving them unrepaired is completely logical. The people at greatest risk from potholes are those on two wheels. Fuck the cyclists. They have the mindset which leads to us suffering these problems and they are only out there pedalling along in order to fuck up the traffic anyway. Motorcyclists however, on their machines greener than the smallest hatchback and not delaying the traffic are at great risk. It is also the case that there is nothing “green” about these traffic-fucking chicanes and humps at all. If you have a modern car with an instantaneous readout of mpg available just take a look at the figure you get pulling away compared to the ones you get at steady speed. This of course equates to vastly increasd emissions of particulates and oxides of nitrogen. Vote Reform.
PS; When crawling in a convoy waiting to pass a cyclist I console myself by recalling the results of research by a medic some years ago and not widely reported:
“There are two kinds of cyclists; those who are impotent and those who will be.”
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I used to drive a transit, sometimes across county’s so I met a fair few pot holes in my time.
On one occasion I noted someone had kindly marked up the potholes with a nice bright florescent red line paint, ready for filling.
Further up the road (traveling at speed) I noticed one high lighted in Green, I mentally calculated that surrey highways had perhaps instituted some form of traffic light system on potholes, green being minor red being deep?
With on coming traffic I could not dodge, but for that matter believing my logic I did not slow down either.
Well fuck me that was a mistake, it almost ripped the nearside wheel off the transit, my logic was incorrect and it would seem that they had run out of red paint!
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If councils used asphalt instead of tarmac in the first place, the road surfaces would last considerably longer and not come apart after a spot of cold weather. But asphalt costs more than tarmac, so it’s the usual British trick of buy cheap, buy twice (or more likely thrice) in the long run.
Also the false economy of contracting pikeys and cowboys to effect “repairs”. A few backhanders going on there, I’d think.
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THE PAIN OF POOR QUALITY FAR OUTLASTS THE PLEASURE OF A CHEAP PRICE…!
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In rural districts much damage is done by big fuck off agriculural vehicles, bigger and heavier than the roads were designed for.Large soft tracter and trailer tyres induce a bounce which increasès and decreases downwards loading, resulting in a wavey surface.
Agriculural vehicles pay no rad tax and legally run on un taxed red diesal fuel.
The man or woman on a moped pays more to use the road and pays to repair their damage.
Do I sound bit pissed off? Yes.
Mornin’ all.
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I remember as a child being forever being told off by mother not to splash around in the potholes on our cobblestone street. Glad I never learnt to drive to this day.
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One too many beings.
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Apparently lammy has been made into the highways minister and has issued a fatwa on himself and is having his last supper before being melted down to solve this issue 😩…top quality blubber that will outlast any asphalt 🛣️
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