MSE News: Councils awarded £100m pothole fund

Mercdriver

gavrc wrote: »

lol. Watch me do it for £53!
Health & Safety = 1 plastic traffic cone + 1 flashing amber light. I'm happy and it's done in 30 minutes (no tea breaks).
Council: farm it out to a company the employs 3+ guys with traffic lights, etc that also has to make profit for bosses and shareholders...

gav

Are you a comedian?

esmerobbo

gavrc wrote: »

lol. Watch me do it for £53!
Health & Safety = 1 plastic traffic cone + 1 flashing amber light. I'm happy and it's done in 30 minutes (no tea breaks).
Council: farm it out to a company the employs 3+ guys with traffic lights, etc that also has to make profit for bosses and shareholders...

gav

Yea of course you could but then again you would be back in a few months doing it again.
However as well as your 1 traffic cone and a flashing amber light you may need a truck or lorry, a roller, and other equipment or do you get them free?

You know it is not illegal to make a profit, even for shareholders, without them you cant employ people.

System

gavrc wrote: »

It's not nearly enough.
What will happen is instead of fixing a quarter of the potholes properly, councils will fix half of them badly.

They do seem to be fixing them properly around my county. Instead of just filling in the hole and whacking it down they're digging out a large rectangle and doing it that way. In some cases where there are several located within fairly close proximity they're doing a large area and going either from the verge to the centre of the carriageway if its all across the lane or doing a long stretch of half a lane wide if its several down the verge side of the lane.

Doc_N

Tarambor wrote: »

They do seem to be fixing them properly around my county. Instead of just filling in the hole and whacking it down they're digging out a large rectangle and doing it that way. In some cases where there are several located within fairly close proximity they're doing a large area and going either from the verge to the centre of the carriageway if its all across the lane or doing a long stretch of half a lane wide if its several down the verge side of the lane.

Just bodging round here - haven't seen a properly repaired pothole in a very long time. 10 minute job - bung in the tarmac, tamp it down and move on to the next one. Lasts on average about 6 weeks at best.

The latest tactic is to stick a traffic cone in the pothole and leave it at that!

MannyK

Birmingham and Sheffield have PFI contracts which mean the Authority gets no money. Also, £100m won’t even make an impact. It might mean a few more potholes are temporarily repaired, but in the meantime 5 more will spring up as there is no money for proactive work. Put it this way, the city of Derby needs over £15m in one go just to keep the roads in ‘good’ condition....while they only receive just over £2m a year for maintenance. A punitive political gesture at best....

Doc_N

Difficult to escape the conclusion that these cuts (dressed up as increases as usual) are just part of an overall government plan to destroy local government altogether.