Pothole Challenge

[ElectroClaret]

What's the biggest/deepest/both you've seen or driven over? They're everywhere.
There's a real beauty on Hyndburn Road in Accy just outside MacDonalds/National Tyres.
Not just a pothole, the whole surface seems to be breaking up for yards.
Do they ever fix em?

[Garnerssoap]

Ingleborough. Swallowed my micra

[No Ney Never]

Thought this was going to be about caving in Settle.

[ClaretDiver]

There is a video on Youtube by one of those pranksters where he goes around planting trees and plants in potholes in New York....quite funny!

[Falcon]

There's several at the speed camera on Brunshaw Road which are bad, down to the cobblestones.

Until recently one on Ridge Road which was very deep, but now been sort-of filled in a bit of a bodge job.

[houseboy]

What's the biggest/deepest/both you've seen or driven over? They're everywhere.
There's a real beauty on Hyndburn Road in Accy just outside MacDonalds/National Tyres.
Not just a pothole, the whole surface seems to be breaking up for yards.
Do they ever fix em?

I've been playing hell about them recently around Acc. Particularly on Hyndburn Road at exactly that point. I think the county council have decided to give Accrington a miss with regard to the roads.

[SammyBoy]

I reckon the road surfaces in Burnley Wood, and in particular Branch Road are only marginally better than some of the roads in Normandy circa June 1944.

[tim_noone]

The mall ..Shaftesbury ave and Downing st. Nay problems there......

[SmudgetheClaret]

I heard a theory that the pothole situation is widespread in the UK and it's not being address at the normal speed so that the inevitable council tax rises will be accepted with less kick offs because they are desperate for the extra

[Sutton-Claret]

I can confirm they are also pretty bad in York. Hit one last year in the dark at around 50mph which gave me a flat tyre and big dent on my alloy wheel.

[get stuck in tracy]

Its makes me wonder where my road tax is being spent, if its a cost saving measure it will have to be addressed eventually so no saving.

[Silkyskills1]

Towards the bottom of Haslingden Old Road in Rawtenstall close to the Indian restaurant has some real potential to claim top spot on this particular thread. Doing a 'slalom' to avoid them is now literally impossible. Classic accident waiting to happen. I'll keep you updated.

[Vintage Claret]

Ormerod Road in Burnley looks like one of those runway busting cluster bombs has been dropped on it, especially at the top end near the Thompson park entrance.

[Dark Cloud]

The most annoying thing is that they actually DO spend thousands (millions) on repairing them, but the work is so shoddy and pathetic that it's crumbling and falling out again (and spreading) within days! Absolutely useless!!

[Rick_Muller]

There's a particularly large (2 foot diameter, up to 6 inches deep at the deepest part) hole in the road through a village, on a bend by me. Local drivers know it's there and go wide to avoid it but others bounce through. Like said above, the repairs are shoddy and ultimately make things worse by having debris across the road which flies up when you go over it. There will be a nasty accident on the bend soon if it's not repaired properly.

Street View from June 2017 below, which shows the partial repairs which have been done 3 times since June! It was one big hole until 2 weeks ago, and the approach is blind as you come round the corner. It is a UK wide issue.

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[Loyalclaret]

There's several at the speed camera on Brunshaw Road which are bad, down to the cobblestones.

Until recently one on Ridge Road which was very deep, but now been sort-of filled in a bit of a bodge job.

Yes the one where people break near the speed camera is bad, as was the ridge road towards Teds.

Higher Reedley Road near 'John's shop' - 50 yards of terrible potholes.

[JayMeStar]

Blackburn Road leading down to the Fence Bypass from Padiham is a disgrace, especially at the top by the houses.

There has been a few bad ones on the M65 recently, too. Both East & Westbound between J8 & 4.

[bfcjg]

Its ridiculous and if councils are playing politics to get central government blamed or if they are not being funded correctly it needs sorting. We are turning into a third world country re roads. Bombard your mp with pictures and complaints, if they think there's votes in it they might do something. Tell May that capitalists are being inconvenienced, tell Corbyn the unemployed and immigrants are being inconvenienced tell the liberals drug dealers and criminals are being inconvenienced tell UKIP its not just migrants who are being inconvenienced tell the Greens that if they were filled in deliveries of tofu would get to eco cafes sooner.
Lets start the movement on Up Thee Clarets.

[TractorFace]

I've never seen our roads so bad. Lancashire County Council are a disgrace. Someone is going to get killed, a biker, cyclist or by someone swerving in order to avoid a pothole, and they (LCC) will have blood on their hands if the pothole was reported in the past and nothing has been done about it. The most dangerous of potholes need sorting out ASAP!

[TractorFace]

Three times more money spent on fixing Ribble Valley roads than Pendle or Burnley

https://goo.gl/gRJBgC

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[LoveCurryPies]

It is nationwide problem and I do think it had escalated. However, councils seemed to find the money on the roads that are used for the annual Tour de Yorkshire cycle races.

[Bacchus]

Three times more money spent on fixing Ribble Valley roads than Pendle or Burnley

https://goo.gl/gRJBgC

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Ribble Valley is 5 times larger (geographically) than Burnley which will undoubtedly account for some of that differential.

[TractorFace]

I'd be willing to guess that the Burnley District has far more roads (mileage) than the Ribble Valley.

[moaninclaret]

Burnley road east,from the top towards waterfoot and travelling the opposite direction, they will swallow your car, avoid if possible

[Burnleyliam]

Was just talking about the Accrington Macdonalds Pot hole(s) today its terrible. There's also a huge crater, like a bomb has been dropped on Burnley Road Accrington, heading towards Burnley at the end of the cemetery.

Can see it was being formed in August last year, theres literally no road left there now, its down to the stone

[Marney&Mee]

Potholing with Peter Pike

I'd watch it

[Bacchus]

I'd be willing to guess that the Burnley District has far more roads (mileage) than the Ribble Valley.

Possibly. Although many will be minor roads in housing estates that don't get the same kind of hammer from trucks, buses, etc. The only point I'm making is that the table tries to draw an overly simplistic comparison.

[tim_noone]

The most annoying thing is that they actually DO spend thousands (millions) on repairing them, but the work is so shoddy and pathetic that it's crumbling and falling out again (and spreading) within days! Absolutely useless!!

The closed shop operators laying the stuff are taking a grand a week easily and couldn't give a flying f..ck. it needs to be regulated from top to bottom.nowt to do with cold weather it's warmer than it's ever been.never seen such bad roads in years. Retention money should be held for shoddy work and they should be penalised.correction never seen such bad roads ever.

[cricketfieldclarets]

Was going to post about this very thing. And was going to get some pictures and write a letter about it. Not arsed about sounding like a sad *******, but didnt because I suspect **** all will be done.

If they are repairing them each year then thats even more criminal than them not at all given the state of the roads. The one on the ridge is or was a disgrace. And as others have pointed out they are literally that bad its a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt due to swerving and or going down one.

They can blame the weather all they want. But they dont have this problem in any other developed country - even those which get colder than here. Travelled through the baltics in winter this time last year and they were in better nick.

Its a disgrace and someone should be held accountable if it isnt sorted.

It is nationwide but nowheer as bad as East Lancs.

I genuinely dont ever remember roads this bad.

Given the amount of tax we pay (not even incluidng council tax) its a joke.

[beddie]

Were in North Yorkshire and like the rest of the country have some horrendous pot holes. We went for a drive yesterday up the dales, I couldn't take my eyes off the road and enjoy the views due to the numerous gaping holes.

[SammyBoy]

Some of the attempted repairs I've seen look comically bad as well. Pretty sure I could've done a better job and I'm utterly clueless when it comes to tarmacking.

[bfcjg]

Just been speaking to a contractor who recently returned from a skiing trip in Switzerland. he drove across France over 800 miles return trip not a road work or pothole in site, cost 70 euros in tolls that's all. When he got back to the UK it took him longer to drive back to Manchester.

[ClaretTim]

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This happened a couple of years back (taken from the article...WARNING: There are some images in this article readers may find offensive).

[Steve1956]

Ingleborough. Swallowed my micra

Edenfield in Rossendale swallowed my Arctic!

[tim_noone]

Bring back cobbles......

[Pstotto]

It's just Nike's front door...