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Barzey
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01 Apr 2011 : 20:22:22
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| I hope to repair the recent shoddy repairs at the top of Watton Road which have shrunk back again |
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Andy B
Moderator
New Zealand
3159 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2011 : 04:31:25
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How strange that an MP is now saying it could cost up to £13 billion to repair all the countries pot holes!
If they had done the original holes correctly in the first place there would not be many to repair now!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13488083 |
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Scottman
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1758 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2011 : 09:20:31
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How much have they 'saved' by not doing them though ? Remember - a cost saved in your administration
and left as a poisoned chalice for the next administration is a political success story.
Thank you, Labour. |
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skippy
Advanced Member
1019 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2011 : 12:04:53
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Originally posted by Scottman
How much have they 'saved' by not doing them though ? Remember - a cost saved in your administration
and left as a poisoned chalice for the next administration is a political success story.
Thank you, Labour.
But it is the county and local councils who are responsible for our roads and they were and still are Conservative! |
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Andy B
Moderator
New Zealand
3159 Posts |
Posted - 27 May 2011 : 19:05:54
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| Back in Ware for a while and its good to see a repair has been carried out in Westmill Road (top of Watton Road) as it should be have been done in the first place. It is also disappointing just how bad a lot of Wares roads still are. |
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Scottman
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1758 Posts |
Posted - 27 May 2011 : 19:19:15
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Welcome 'home' Andy B. Yes you will find some good repairs, and even some preventative resurfacing - including the 'old' A10 from Hanbury through Wadesmill to High Cross.
The contractors came through Scotts Road today with the 'tar blower'. They managed to fill most of the holes, and leave a fair few just to remind us I guess. Be interesting to see just how long the blow in patches last, on a steepish gradient with lorries and cars pulling up the hill all day long.
Sigh. |
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Mel
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1296 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2011 : 08:43:31
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| The tar blowing repair at the bottom of Lower Clabdens seems to be holding up quite well. That must be about a year old! |
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Alec
Senior Member
United Kingdom
616 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 10:49:17
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Looks like we might finally see resolution on the assault course that is the speed table at the pedestrian crossing in New Road, by the Kibes Lane Car Park.
My latest (of very many) report for this location has had this response: "This is scheduled to be re-built on 5th Feb 2012." And I see road closure warnings in New Road. Here's hoping that they might actually do this job properly, as it's been a hazard to pedestrians as well as motorists for the last year or two! |
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mb1
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
2139 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 12:22:46
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Simes
Average Member
United Kingdom
121 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 12:33:04
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Glad to see the New Road 'hump' is finally getting fixed. Just looked back to my post on here from January last year. At that time it already had several layers of crazy patching on it, so I reckon it must be nearly two years since the damage first set in. Tempted to put in a Freedom of Information request to find out how much money has been wasted on useless repairs in all that time.
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Alec
Senior Member
United Kingdom
616 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 13:50:01
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Indeed, this has been a particularly shockingly "maintained" bit of road. My wife watched around Christmas when they put more patching on it, without even stopping the traffic. She said you could see the the new tarmac being removed by passing cars almost as it was laid - sigh...
In the same vein, I reported two really chunky potholes next to each other in Winton Road a month ago. They promptly came, filled in one quite well, went away and marked the job as complete - having left its larger neighbout barely a metre away! So, another report to get that one fixed. Double the admin overhead, double the travel & labour time. Not to mention, with those two worst ones done, I now need to report the lesser ones...
I've tried reporting whole stretches of road before, but it seems you have to report hole by hole to get them all patched - completely barking! |
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Scottman
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1758 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 17:11:37
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You could despair, couldn't you ? I see that Star Street has been marked up in white paint for another major patching job, also Scotts Road. In neither place have they covered even half the potholes - there are simply too many. Both require being ripped up and fully resurfaced, as do a number of other roads in the town.
Continual patching is a waste of time, effort and our cash. The only people happy with it are local garages and tyre companies, who are doing a good trade on repairs and replacements of tyres and suspensions............ |
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Andy B
Moderator
New Zealand
3159 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 21:41:36
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Originally posted by Scottman
You could despair, couldn't you ? I see that Star Street has been marked up in white paint for another major patching job, also Scotts Road. In neither place have they covered even half the potholes - there are simply too many. Both require being ripped up and fully resurfaced, as do a number of other roads in the town.
Continual patching is a waste of time, effort and our cash. The only people happy with it are local garages and tyre companies, who are doing a good trade on repairs and replacements of tyres and suspensions............
A local man with a can of white spray paint could make a difference!! |
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Joost
Average Member
107 Posts |
Posted - 02 Feb 2012 : 21:44:33
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Andy B
Moderator
New Zealand
3159 Posts |
Posted - 15 Mar 2012 : 05:49:56
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Spotted this on the BBC web site and the government are now saying that it is going to take years to rid England and Wales of pot holes. They also say that it is cheaper to repair them now than it used to be!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17376556 |
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John_D
Average Member
United Kingdom
185 Posts |
Posted - 15 Mar 2012 : 08:38:16
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Originally posted by Andy B
Spotted this on the BBC web site and the government are now saying that it is going to take years to rid England and Wales of pot holes. They also say that it is cheaper to repair them now than it used to be!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17376556
I think what is meant is 'that it's cheaper to bodge them now than it used to be to repair them' |
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Scottman
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1758 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2012 : 15:10:20
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You know, I would just LOVE to understand HCC's prioritisation for repairs around here. we still have Star Street and Watton Road in Ware looking and feeling like farm tracks, yet Watton at Stone has now had the rest of its High Street resurfaced.
Which is a little weird, because the road surface didn't need it ........ |
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Scottman
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1758 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jun 2012 : 17:03:12
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..and now I've found an even better 'example' to wonder at. A friend lives in a sleepy little cul de sac in Codicote, with about 30 houses in it. The road has just been planed down and properly resurfaced with asphalt - not patches, the whole thing. Probably takes 200 cars a day ....
I stand in awe .... |
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