Pothole Claim - FOI data received

AdrianC

jimbo6977 wrote: »

So how do you explain the nonexistent snow?

Apart from it simply being the likelihood of boilerplate text, there might not have been any snow by you, but was there elsewhere in the county? If so, that'd divert resources.

There's certainly been snow in places round here, causing disruption on several occasions. And, of course, flooding.

jimbo6977

The op lives on the potholed road in question, knows there has been no snow on that road, yet is told by the clowncil that any potholes were invisible due to being covered by snow.

Maybe it's like Bruce Lee, the snow of no snow.
Maybe it's special snow only visible to clowncil workers?

AdrianC

jimbo6977 wrote: »

The op lives on the potholed road in question, knows there has been no snow on that road, yet is told by the clowncil that any potholes were invisible due to being covered by snow.

Maybe it's like Bruce Lee, the snow of no snow.
Maybe it's special snow only visible to clowncil workers?

Like the special potholes that the OP didn't know about, despite living on the road and driving down it every day?

jimbo6977

The council has a duty to keep the road in a correct condition.

Instead of discharging that duty they are inventing weather events.

I fail to see why anyone would defend this course of action.

If motorists were under some sort of duty to avoid potholes, a great many roads would be effectively closed to traffic.

AdrianC

jimbo6977 wrote: »

If motorists were under some sort of duty to avoid potholes...

Do you have a driving licence?
Did it come free on a packet of cornflakes, or did you actually take a test for it?

Do you deliberately drive into illegally-parked stationary cars, on the basis they shouldn't be there?

jimbo6977

Thanks to the ineptitude of my local council, my daily commute includes stretches of road where the gaps between the potholes are smaller than the contact patch of a tyre. Do you suggest I not bother going to work?

AdrianC

jimbo6977 wrote: »

Thanks to the ineptitude of my local council, my daily commute includes stretches of road where the gaps between the potholes are smaller than the contact patch of a tyre. Do you suggest I not bother going to work?

No, I suggest you slow down and pick your way through and around. You'd be surprised how well tyres will cope when you drive appropriately.

If you have ridiculously low-profile tyres, 45 or below, then you may wish to reconsider your priorities when it comes to your next car purchase - or, if they're aftermarket rims, return to standard.

(And, yes, I am discounting the likelihood of hyperbole)

jimbo6977

I pick my way through as carefully as I can, and thankfully I have high profile XL tyres, but if despite all this I were to suffer some loss or damage as a result of the condition of the road, I, like the OP, would be pretty narked if the council invented a bunch of nonexistent extreme weather to try and absolve itself of responsibility.

So what can the OP do? Well I suppose there are weather records available for the area for the supposed inspection period, but there's unlikely to be a Met Office weather station at the end of the road: perhaps someone nearby is an amateur metoerologist, might be worth asking around?