POTHOLES ... are drivers' biggest bugbear, RAC finds (1 Viewer)

[Bobbejaan]

Potholes are drivers' biggest bugbear, RAC finds​

Potholes are drivers' biggest bugbear, RAC finds

Punctures, wheel damage and broken suspension springs are the most common damage, finds survey.

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But judging by the first photo .... can be a bonus free-dive for cavers.

 

[SpeedyDux]

Potholes are drivers' biggest bugbear, RAC finds​

Potholes are drivers' biggest bugbear, RAC finds

Punctures, wheel damage and broken suspension springs are the most common damage, finds survey.

www.bbc.co.uk

But judging by the first photo .... can be a bonus free-dive for cavers.

The lack of potholes when driving in France is a refreshing contrast to the UK.

 

[Richard n Ann]

The roads are an embarrassment when we get visitors from Poland, I try and drive round them.
Letting the roads disintegrate surely doesn't save money in the long term

 

[tonyidle]

The roads are an embarrassment when we get visitors from Poland, I try and drive round them.
Letting the roads disintegrate surely doesn't save money in the long term

I try to drive round visitors of any nationality.

 

[Emmit]

Potholes are a pain.

However, worse than them I find 'Gully grates' just as bad, if not worse.

Down here at the 'Pointy bit', roads are narrow, even the 'A' roads.
(there are 'A' roads down here that are less than 6mts wide and don't have road markings.)

As a result of the narrowness, one is forced on occasions to be 'at the edge' and the
grates taking the water away seem, (to my eyes anyway) to be sunken down, way below
the road surface. The jarring of traversing them makes some potholes seem acceptable.
At least one can steer around potholes. With grates, it's either them or a collision.

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[Guigsy]

Road maintenance has been below that required to stop our roads deteriorating for a long time. Quick patches only work on the most superficial of surface damage.

Once a pothole has developed, it's broken into the lower sub layers of the structure and damage quickly occurs. The top coarse has to be stripped away and the base has to be repaired. Slapping tarmac in the hole or putting binding and chippings over the top of pointless because it'll quickly fail again. It's a short term fix that costs more in the long term.

It going to cost vast sums of money just to get our roads back to a minimum standard.

 

[DT]

But the motoring organisations and media do nothing. They should be leading the fight to Labour.