Potholes

Agutka

It's been bugging me and I don't know where elso to ask. When the snow melted it uncovered a major road in my town - with hundreds of potholes in it. The road was perfect before the freezing temperatures . Has someone been stealing the asphalt?

neilmcl

There are lots of roads like that round ours. It's just the normal effect of what freezing and thawing does to our already poorly maintained road network.

southernscouser

Water gets into the holes, then it freezes and expands, breaking up the asphalt. Bloody nightmare round here. Not so much potholes, but canyons. :rolleyes:

shuaibf

Try Edinburgh its a joke here and when they fix it roads will be shut on top of the bloody tram works

rev_henry

You can usually report such things to the council online and they'll sort it out. Here in Lancs they're usually quite good.

Hintza

rev_henry wrote: »

You can usually report such things to the council online and they'll sort it out. Here in Lancs they're usually quite good.

Looking at our roads they will be overwhelmed just now, so unless it is huge probably best to leave them to just get on with it for a month or so.

angeltreats

My husband drove my car over a massive pothole yesterday and absolutely mangled my front wheel. He didn't see it in time to avoid it. Lucky I had a spare wheel.

alo6

angeltreats wrote: »

My husband drove my car over a massive pothole yesterday and absolutely mangled my front wheel. He didn't see it in time to avoid it. Lucky I had a spare wheel.

take a few pics of it with a rule showing depth, width, length and the council should pay for damages.

Ive done it before with my council (renfrewshire), took about a month and a half to settle.

kolin_2

i'd like to point out that kirklees council are useless at anything to do with roads.

i've lived in dewsbury 30 years, and i know of well commuted roads that have never been resurfaced. potholes are a regular feature of the commute.

angeltreats

alo6 wrote: »

take a few pics of it with a rule showing depth, width, length and the council should pay for damages.

Ive done it before with my council (renfrewshire), took about a month and a half to settle.

Unfortunately we didn't have a camera with us at the time and it's far too far from home (a two hour round trip) to be worth the hassle for the sake of a second hand wheel from the scrapyard and the cost of a part-worn tyre. I'd definitely have chased it up if it was going to cost me more than twenty quid or so though.

Thanks though :rotfl:

flyingscotno1

alo6 wrote: »

take a few pics of it with a rule showing depth, width, length and the council should pay for damages.

Ive done it before with my council (renfrewshire), took about a month and a half to settle.

I'd wager they would perhaps contest it on a few grounds, due to perhaps period of severe weather.