potholes

[Steve1956]

Labour spent virtually nothing on road repairs in the 13 years of power. Tories haven't been much better but that 13 years did the damage which is impossible to catch up with.
We will never have the quality of road surfaces we had 2 decades ago. Cluster bombed cart tracks are here to stay!

I'm sorry please accept my apologies I hate politics I shouldn't have got involved it won't happen again.

[UpTheBeehole]

Labour spent virtually nothing on road repairs in the 13 years of power. Tories haven't been much better but that 13 years did the damage which is impossible to catch up with.
We will never have the quality of road surfaces we had 2 decades ago. Cluster bombed cart tracks are here to stay!

Road upkeep is a council's responsibility

[bob-the-scutter]

Road upkeep is a council's responsibility

Highways agency actually.
For trunk roads Central Government pays 100% of the maintenance costs. For roads maintained by local authorities, Central Government will pay 50% of the costs for A-roads and 30% for B-roads, with the remaining cost of maintaining these (and the entire cost of maintaining unclassified roads) met by the local authority itself.
http://infoaboard.com/autos/british-roads/
Local government will tell you they are underfunded by central government.

We could have a photo shoot of our local potholed roads but i`m sure it would crash the website

[Cirrus_Minor]

Deadly for cyclists.

I have often wondered about how much damage does a car do to a road compared to a lorry. Seems to me that there are far too many heavy goods vehicles on our roads and this may have a negative effect on the road surfacing.

[ClaretEngineer]

Been a regular visitor to Germany for the last 20 years and they have excellent roads that seem to last without the need for continual repair. Can only summise that we use inferior methods , equipment and materials to build them. Cheap road surfacing to the lowest bidder is false economy.

If they do need repair they do the job properly. I was over a few years back for the Hannover Messe. The Germans had managed resurface a considerable part of the Autobahn in the time it would take our authorities to just put the cones out.

[Dressinggown]

The A56 between Haslingden (Rising Bridge) and the M65 is shocking. Any repairs are gone within a matter of days.

[Jeffbfc]

Just caught the side of one turning right .
Ripped tyre, and a chunk out of the mag wheel.
Brilliant.

[beddie]

Jeffbfc. If it's council maintained then take a picture (if possible of the pot hole) then contact them and tell them your sending them the bill for the repair.

[aggi]

Deadly for cyclists.

I have often wondered about how much damage does a car do to a road compared to a lorry. Seems to me that there are far too many heavy goods vehicles on our roads and this may have a negative effect on the road surfacing.

A lot more. It's the fourth power of the axle weight so doubling the axle weight will increase road damage (2x2x2x2)=16 times.

[tim_noone]

On my short journeys from kelbrook there's hundreds I've noticed on reading this thread foulridge and nelson shocking...and outside farm foods in colne there's one that big and deep it could do with a man hole cover. Whoever is responsible for the roads in the contracting dept.are part of a massive fraud IMO

[SammyBoy]

I reckon Normandy in 1945 had superior roads to some of those in present day Burnley Wood, I've found myself having to weave from side to side to avoid them on several occasions. It really is reaching crisis levels and something needs to be done about it.

[If it be your will]

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