Just thought these would make you chuckle a bit, not overly cycle friendly...
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Glasgow potholes (a photographic rant)
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I assume you have sent the Pics to the council and complained?
You have too much time on your hands by the way!
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there is a CTC app for iphones for instant reporting
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You could get lost in some of those, or at least buckle a wheel.
I'm off to download that CTC app before I trash an alloy wheel in some of the chasms around Edinburgh.
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Coffeking, I'm with you, the potholes in Glasgow are shocking just now.
Many of them haven't been repaired since last winter and I think the council has taking to repairing some of them with polyfilla judging by how quickly they reappear.
Some of them on my commute would swallow a whole wheel! Need to take some pics of the worse ones the next time I've got time
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If only you could get bicycles with fat tyres and suspension that could cope with the odd bump in the road.
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You and I must share much of a common commute, CK - I recognise these holes.
On my way home on Friday, I figured under the canal bridge at Possil Street would be flooded (as it was in the morning) so I went on towards Maryhill and went up Firhill St instead. Rounding the bend at the top of the hill in the torrential rain I went straight into an enormous square pothole hidden by surface water and wrecked my front wheel. Just managed to stay on the bike - the hole must have been nearly a foot deep.
Taxi drivers must be livid at the moment.
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Facebook is blocked at my work so this might be a duplicate.
The state of the contraflow on eglinton st under the new M74 flyover is unbeleivable, proper holes that are over a foot deep and now all full of water so nicely hidden
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Edinburgh is just as bad to be honest.
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Same around here but to be fair they've already fixed some of them but still some huge monster potholes.
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5thElefant - Member
If only you could get bicycles with fat tyres and suspension that could cope with the odd bump in the road.
The problem with potholes are the hard normaly sharp edges unlike the stuff you encounter offroad. This is why it can do such damage to cars let alone a bike.They do look bad, at least southamptons not that bad and they are good at filling them if you report near accidents to them.
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The state of the contraflow on eglinton st under the new M74 flyover is unbeleivable,
Yes. Unbelievable. Looks like it's been mortared
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Yup, reported some of them, got bored filling in CTC forms and just compiled the lot into an email and sent it to the chief exec of the council and the Evening Times. Awaiting replies!
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Wife was out dining with one of the local D&G contractors and he is really pd off with the local council roads dept. They have instructed him to just fill & whack all the holes in his patch/contract rather than do it proper by digging out and doing the job properly. Seems the end of yr budget controls are kicking in already
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Saw a moped dissapear into one in Brutsfield in Edinburgh last night, he's probably still faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllliiiiiiiinnnngggggggggg
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http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/
Not a filthy website, rather somewhere to report potholes to your local authority, thus obliging them to act on them.
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Are you trying to say the roads are good or bad?
don simon (Spain)
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don simon - if it were all the roads and not just sneaky parts the catch you out on an otherwise OK stretch it wouldn't be too bad, its when you round the corner and have nowhere to go but through it (or slam on and watch people ram you up the rear)!
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Councils are so crap.
Surely if there was some legislation where, if you dig up the road, it can be GPS logged and a photo taken.
Then if a pothole opens up on the patch within, say 18 months, you are legally bound to gao and fix it.Most of these potholes open up at the edge of repairs which have not been sealed properly.
If contractors knew they would have to come back and fix their crap work they would just spend a tiny bit more on doing it right the first time.Posted 1 year ago # -
ok ok so the roads around town are crap but it is being worked on!!
I work for glasgow council and I can tell you that for the first time in years we have a team who are dedicated to locating and logging the potholes so they can be fixed, External contractors will be getting told to do a temp patch just to cover the short term as all the proper patching is to be done by the council depots to save money
if you want to report a pothole or any other road defect for that matter (in the glasgow council area) blocked gulley etc etc call
0800 37 36 35 and they will log it and put it on the Q to be fixed
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the roads in birmingham are pretty bad at the moment.
its seems to me as if a lot of the problems are caused when the road has been dug up by a utility company and then not repaired to a decent standard. i guess there isn't a lot of regulation about repairing / filling in roadsPosted 1 year ago # -
Coffeeking, I'm in Bishopbriggs and use Balmore Road a lot - it's pretty shocking at the moment as are most of the roads in East Dunbartonshire and Glasgow.
You should see the holes on Baird Street at the lights opposite the police station - M A S S I V E !! - they keep getting 'patched' but within a few days are bigger than ever. Surely it's better value to fix it PROPERLY once rather than having to come back several times and patch??!?
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I recognise a lot of those holes
enduro-aid - good to hear it is being worked on, but hard not to think too little too late. My daily commute (by car) through the south side to city centre is becoming increasingly more haphazard as drivers try and drive round these craters rather than ding their wheels, resulting in cars out of the correct lane etc - it's unfiortunately only a matter of time till there is a death/injury due to teh disrepair of the roads
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in order to put in a permenent fix the hole must be cleaned out and the surrounding surface cut away for roughly 600mm in order to give a good grounding to the fix, then the depth of the hole must be min 450mm depending on the road grade. you can then do the work but all this is only possible IF you are guarnteed 3 or 4 days where the temp will not dip below 4 degrees so the number of days during winter that you can do "proper patching" is slim
as i have said for the first time in 10 years we have a team of guys finding logging and marking them for the depot to fix, in previous years we have relyed on the public to report, this has been made possible by additional goverment funding
the decision to make all permenent patching work done by the depots was made to try and keep the additional funding inhouse and save some jobs
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Enduro-aid I hear what you are saying and understand (I work in civil engineering). My gripe is that a lot of these pot-holes have been getting 'temporary' patches for years now and they just keep getting opened up by the weather and traffic. Another issue is surface water:- the road side drainage ditches do not seem to be maintained any more so the flooding/surface water/puddles are geting worse and the resultant hydraulic and frost action knackers the roads quicker. It just seems a bit of false economy here and some common sense is required in the roads maintenance regime. Prevention is often better than cure and all that.
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ok ok so the roads around town are crap but it is being worked on!!
I work for glasgow council and I can tell you that for the first time in years we have a team who are dedicated to locating and logging the potholes so they can be fixed, External contractors will be getting told to do a temp patch just to cover the short term as all the proper patching is to be done by the council depots to save money
Well they're failing miserably quite frankly. Many of the holes have been there for 2+ years, get filled with what can only be described as a dump of topsoil and open up within days and are never checked again. Others are in heavy use hotspots and open up every 4-5 weeks. Some local residents have taken to filling them with sand and rubble of their own volition because they're sick of it, and that makes things worse.
I could literally take a day off work to log, locate and report all the potholes JUST ON MY COMMUTE into town, let alone those on minor roads. These are MAJOR roads, they're not back roads that don't get scouted much, how can the damage go un-noticed for so long if there's a team out looking?
So far this year I've replaced 3 tyres due to sidewall damage, that's nearly £200 out of my pocket because the council is completely ineffective on this matter (and eastd council too, but to be fair they seem to be a bit faster to repair - maybe a month or so).
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it's not just glasgow council that are completely useless
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At Shawlands cross, just outside The Corona pub, there are potholes so deep that electrical wires laid under the tarmac are now showing
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Just walking home from the shops today and heard the tell tail BANG! psst psst psst psst..... of a tyre rapidly deflating after hitting a large hole. Poor sod.
South street in the west end is like an off road training course right now.Posted 1 year ago # -
Was going to take a pic of the one just down the road which was becoming increasingly more dangeros to avoid due to it`s location. Lo and behold it has been "filled" in. The contractors office is jst a few hundred yards along the same road so it is wierd why it took weeks to "fill/repair"
Took this on way to see Parents, not easy to see crater and water running down both side of road due to water running off fields;
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wot pistola said. Nail on head.
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Definitely report them and see what happens.
The madness of central funding to the likes of Glasgow and other cities where there is a high volume of traffic is that central funding takes no account of road usage. This means Great Western Road receives the same share of the pot, mile for mile, as a barely used back road in Argyll. Complete and utter madness.
Also, even with a proper fix, the repair will always be a weak point compared to a completely relaid section of road.
Enduro-aid
Do you work for LES?
Cheers
Sanny
Posted 1 year ago # -
The south side is getting a hammering from M74 plant as well.
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the worst bit I see daily is down Aitkenhead rd, from Hampden on, and the 'quarries' that seem to have opened up in the shortcuts through Govanhill are maybe a new source of aggregate for the M74 !!!
Posted 1 year ago # -
The fill that hole website works really well. They normally fill in reported potholes (in Sheffield) in 24 to 48 hours.
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