MG
The Classic Marque

Ironically I have just read that our local MP has been speaking to the County Council about potholes and is saying exactly what we have, in that they need repairing properly rather than wasting money on repairing the same ones over and over. The councils response is that they are doing "make safe" repairs and permanent repairs will be done when its drier. What a load of cobblers, if others can man...

Trev
Agreed, repairs should be done properly. It must surely be costing more to do a poor job twice than a proper job once.

Anam
I can see you in a Range Rover 🤣🤣🤣

(Or get a proper Landrover series 1 or 2....)

Here's a nice video showing a number of parts of the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MzcRu3JvYE . I haven't made a sectional chuck like that but do have a 2 part one where the base has to be cut off to remove the end of the chuck, see image.

This conversation is but a meer snippet of the microcosm of all the conversations and rants by angry road users all over the uk.

We all know how bad it is. We all know it's getting worse.

And yet, there is nothing more than lip service from hmg, that is when they can be bothered to mention that it's "one of their priorities".

Yep it's not just the bloody socialists who h...

"metal spinning" ?

I need educating. Please educate this dummy David. 😁.

Bill, not sure how it compares to 2010 but the county council here have an extra £6 million to spend specifically on road repairs this year coming from the DfT and more to come in future but it wont make any difference if the repairs are not done properly.

It shows the incompetence when you look at the pothole I referred to only lasting a few days, yet a few yards further down is a tren...

Grey
Very kind of you to help the lady who faceplanted---
My son went to the aid of an elderly lady who'd tripped on an uneven concrete footpath joint, she was quite old and it'd wrecked her. He rushed to help but the lady, with her rather large alsation with her said "don't touch me the dog is very protective"--she tried to get up but couldn't and said son moved in to help her---big mista...

Grey
Yes, I agree that things like road repairs are a priority and maybe savings should be made on less important things. I don't know how Scotland compares with England or Wales in this respect.

No Bill. I can't quote figures offhand but I am sceptical about "officially supplied" statistics because I always wonder who appears to benefit.
That is not to say that your link is false: far from it. But I have trust issues. Even with IFS.
My point about institutional waste stands though.
My local authority in the West of Scotland chooses (for example) to spend my money on biling...

Sort of like when I buy pewter blanks for metal spinning it works out cheaper to buy the round blanks cut to my requirements as the offcuts are melted down and rolled out into new sheet.