GRAVEL....NOOOOO!

[Kwakki Si]

Well you better believe it, all round my area they have ripped up the roads again and chucked a fuck ton of gravel down!!! nearly came off earlier today! They did the same thing last year when we got a bit of descent weather, thought they wouldnt be aloud to do it again as it caused a bit of uproar.
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[UnspeedySam]

Where do you live? They keep doing this in Southampton
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[c-m]

Why don't they just build a decent road in the first instance? Then they won't need to keep coming back and throwing shit on it each year.

[P.]

[Acemastr]

They did this last year around here, it has now all come up and has left slick tar patches where it was stuck to.

I'm not joking, EVERY road they've resurfaced this way has now come back up...
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[jjdugen]

Why wont they use the same stuff they make speed humps out of for roads. Our local roads are now a motocross curcuit, bombhole roads with the added fun of the humps. The humps never break up.
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[Seigi]

I seem to remember reading that the agency which deals with UK's roads have been cutting costs massively and using really cheap components resulting in roads falling apart within a year. If they'd just spend a lot to begin with it'd pay itself off over the years extra it'd last.

[Rogerborg]

Report it to your local council before you bin it?

The roads round here look like a Top Gear Elbonian Outback Special; my friendly garage reckon that dealing with shagged suspension and wheels constitute the majority of their work now.
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[Andy_Pagin]

They seem to be resurfacing all the roads around Enfield and doing a lovely job of it, should stay pristine and safe for ten years. Doing a crappy job of it is a false economy.
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[Kradmelder]

Gravel roads are the most awesome technical riding you can do. Stop whinging and get off the tar. Open the throttle stand on the pegs and feel the bike move around underneath you. You won't want to ride tar again
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[Shinigami]

round here some roads are much much worse than others, I think it's the council roads that are terrible, the A19 between work and home (about 20 miles) has zero pot holes in it and i beleive the maintenance is a private company?

However the standard streets around here are absolutely covered in potholes, and when they do patch them they do such a terrible job they either become potholes again in a week or they are solid overfilled lumps sticking out of the road
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[Hetzer]

Mussolini had the right idea for this kind of rip-off.
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[Kris]

I used to work in the same office as the Highways Engineers for Kent.

Useless fucks.

Recently they've just lost the contract to Amey...Lets see how we get on now.
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[Joncrete Cungle]

One road on my commute was bodged with bitumen and loose gravel in September last year. The bodge is in need of re bodging in many areas. Reminds me I better report it via fixmystreet, again.

[Alpha-9]

On the country road near me they dumped gravel down, literally, was just a mass of loose gravel, it's mostly been mashed into the road by cars now but I still take it easy round there

stupid idea if you ask me, especially on a NSL country road where bikes frequent
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[fatpies]

I'm puzzled as why TPTB don't use textured concrete.

I remember the 80s (maybe the 90s) around Birmingham they had this 'experimental road surface' which was essentially textured concrete.

I mean airport taxiways are made out of it and they seem to be just big slabs of concrete sealed with bits of rubber.

I mean when they want to 'dig up the road' they can just lift them like big paving slabs bury new cable, gas pipe or whatever and then just put it back and has a very long life.
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[Hetzer]

If we had portable cold-fusion reactors we could have driveable rigs that would melt the road by way of repairing it.
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[sebastianw]

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