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where its really bad, they’ve just put a sign saying ‘temporary surface’.
that’s it, they aren’t even attempting to fix them.
Round us they stuck up “single track road” signs on a long stretch that up to now was two lanes, as an alternative to fixing the edges, it appeared.
They're right, though. The state it’s in now it’s pretty much one car wide!
I'm just back from a weekend of being a roadie in the alps. The roads were superb (as were the attitudes of drivers to cyclists). Saw plenty of evidence of roads being resurfaced along the TDF route.
Despite some of the higher areas still being under/just emerging from snow, they don't seem to suffer from the same gaping chasm carnage that a bit of frost in the UK causes.
They will be spending a large part of their budget repairing broken pavements as well as they are now car parks.
Here is an example of Rodney st in Liverpool city centre. Repairs are also being done with tarmac "temporarily" even though many have been in place for years.
We've all been on holiday on the mainland and seen their perfectly surfaced roads.
We all know that the reason they have such nice roads is that they are paid for by the hard working British tax payer.
Now that we don't have to pay for their roads the hard working British taxpayer will be expecting perfectly smooth roads.
Me thinks they will be disappointed.
Now that we don’t have to pay for their roads the hard working British taxpayer will be expecting perfectly smooth roads.
Me thinks they will be disappointed.
Even more so when they can't cycle on the nice European roads without paying €6 for their visa at Calais. 🙂
Report Surrey potholes here: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/do-it-online/report-it-online
Sussex potholes here: http://love.westsussex.gov.uk/account/logon
After few recent rides on the road bike.....I've reported 20 potholes in Sussex. About half are filled, some are noted for work with no date.
Tried reporting hole in the road to Leith Hill (Surrey cc) but get std email - we've looked at that and it needs no work! So need to nag them more.
The U.K. Climate is actually really tough for the built environment as unlike our continental neighbours we don't get long sustained periods of cold and hot. We get a lot of warmish/ coldish just either sides of 0C. This means that what, say, structures in the Alps experience maybe 6x a year - freeze/ thaw - our structures (buildings, bridges, roads) experience this maybe 50 or 60x a year. Consequently the resulting effect is many times greater here because we experience more of the damage cycles.
Oh and the squeeze on public maintenance works isn't helping.
Saw plenty of evidence of roads being resurfaced along the TDF route.
Well, of course they are!
<p>Don't think "austerity" is the be all and end all of why the roads are in a state, it's exactly the same up here where the council tax was frozen for years.We can't even build new ones right! What happened to the roads built in the 70's with the huge white stone chips that lasted longer? Or did it just seem that way because more people knew how to walk the length of themselves?</p><p></p><p>It has got to a point now where I'm selling my road bike, I just can't be bothered taking a hammering in and out of work on the crappy excuse we have for a road network so I got myself a second hand Kona Dew Deluxe and haven't looked back. The roads are just far too rough, I don't honestly know how the club cyclists can be bothered as it must fairly wear you down.</p>