state of roads...

[Snorty]

Is it just me or are the roads absolutely knackered? I'm finding myself counting the amount of harsh bumps and how many times my bike is bouncing along a stretch of road.

They've just done some sort of digging on a road near me which was smooth now they've just left a big channel down the centre of one side which is just atrocious to ride on.

they've just finished building a new housing estate and left the roads in a right state from all the crap machinery they've been driving up and down it. These private companies should have to clean up the mess they've made.

Is there anything we can do I'm getting absolutely sick of playing 'avoid the pothole/sunken grate' whilst trying to watch in front of me as well...

Any kind of petition or anything?

[N cee thirty]

relised this epically today

went the horse shoe pass and everywhere is just fvcked,makes it even worse when they put the chipping down,just tarmac it ffs and stop digging it up again
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Take photo and head for the Council's website.

Only the whingers bother, that's why the posh estate get nice repairs and chavsville don't.
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[Frost]

Wales has no money. They were turning off street lights in an entire town in an effort to save money, that's how broke they are. So pot holes and road surface are only going to be getting worse.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

From personal experience i can say Shropshire's A roads are in better condition than Cheshire's and Derbyshire's.
On the A34 there are some holes that would bottom out most forks.
Marmalade could give some insight into the state of the nation's roads.

I still stand by my flippant remark. Chavsville places like wot i drove through today in Manchester. They have the crappy roads for longer as people don't tend to complain.
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[Rogerborg]

Depends on the council. zanuLabour and now Plaid Commie in Glasgow fix the roads in the sink estates that they need to vote them in, while leaving the nice places to rot as they'll never vote for either of them anyway.

Having just come back from 2 weeks in California, it's really struck me (in the spine) that we've basically got 3rd World roads here. We import all of our goods, while the infrastructure rots under us - hellllo, last days of the Roman Empire.
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[Snorty]

The road I live on has a pothole about half a foot deep (no joke). It's got the little white square boxes around the potholed areas, but on top of it being very pot-holey, there's just loose gravel where whoever has surfaced it has done a shit job.

They'll just patch the holes and consider it "job done" when really it should be a case of if say on a Y length stretch of road there are more than X potholes, it should be resurfaced. The patches are still bumpy when you ride over them.

[Marcg868]

The A roads and B Roads round here are shocking. The from my Village in Harwood that goes towards Ainsworth and Bury is a disgrace. Where the white line is supposed to be is a potholed groove. The Rest of the road has various sized pot holes along the road.

I know Greece and its Islands are in financial ruin at the moment, but when i went to Rhodes last year. And Hired a bike, it was a dream come true. The main roads are silky smooth. Even the back roads between the various hotels etc are nicely surfaced compare to our shite hole.

They would rather spunk money into paying scrubbers the housing benefits and that waste of bloody time Olympics which won't benefit the north of England in the slightest.
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[neatbik]

This was one of the reasons why i got rid of a sportsbike and got a big bouncy 'adventure' bike.

Now pot holes and flaky tarmac dont bother me at all.

What really pisses me off that every year, round about April/May time (just when the weather is warming up and the roads are getting somewhere near grippy again) the council rip up the roads and 'repair' them by leaving crap loads of loose chippings on top...

Only now is my favourite section of road back to normal again.

[Ditto]

On my into work its even worse than it was before. There were literally over a hundred potholes which they took about 2 weeks filling up over the 1.5 mile stretch.

Then they've decided to resurface it anyway, but instead of doing it in one go the road now has a layer of what can only be described as gravel over it with 'skid risk' signs up all along it.
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[ruck bodgers]

i let some extra air out my tyres today just for this reason
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[Paulington]

Yeah, absolutely, the roads are getting a fair bit worse and it's quite noticeable but since it's noticeable it's avoidable.

Pay more attention to the middle and far road ahead of you and you will be able to avoid almost every single one, apart of course from the real nasty roads that are like it the entire length and width, even then you can just find another route.

However if it really is that awful you could write to your local council, your local MP, the Department for Transport and anyone else you can think of. Make sure you send it recorded delivery to the correct people AND make sure you phone them to make sure they know it's coming. Make sure the letters include the names of the people you spoke to on the phone, the street addresses which the potholes are on, stating how bad they are, what a massive danger they are and make sure you state that it is their responsibility to maintain the roads so they are always at a safe standard which they are failing to do which means they are not fulfilling their obligations.

A difference can be made if you post letters enough OR enough people post letters, maybe create a local website/petition that you can get advertised in your local area which will garner more support and put more pressure on your local council.

Best of luck. !

[blurredman]

I know what would stop it.

Concrete You have to keep a happy medium sometimes!
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[N cee thirty]

[hellbound]

came off the motorway yesterday evening and went down a nearly resurfaced bit of road, loose chippings warnings and everything.

Needed to wee so pulled into a layby, braked and slide, release braked and slide, run out of layby so pulled back out onto road like nothing had happened and I was supposed to do that.
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[Kris]

Mate and I were hooning through some East Sussex backroad a while ago and the only signage (we found out afterwards) was a tiny A4 bit of card tie-wrapped to a tree.

Cue two bikes go round a sweeping right hander to suddenly find we were on loose chippings at speed. Sketchy!

Anyhow, yes the roads are shit. I concur.
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