Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Nightjar
wrote:

On 19-Feb-18 2:14 PM, DerbyBorn

The problem with kerbs is that they trap water and require drainage to
be added. The simpler solution is to build the roads a couple of feet
wider and paint a white line a couple of feet in from the edge.

Good luck with that round here, such as at 51 15 53N, 1 04 08E. In
general your solution would require digging out banks and tearing down
hedges. Here's another where passing (even by cars) is just possible if
you drive up the bank: 51 12 20N, 0 59 07E.

A lot of the problem is the abandoning of local road lengthsmen who knew
their patch and regularly knew what ditches ,drains and culverts to keep an
eye on. this chaps have been swept away in the name of efficiency and
contracting out to contractors who get called in retrospectively and
havent a clue where old drains are and never solve the problem.
Near where I grew there is a dip in a road where there was once an
overbridge where the Lord of the Manor had his drive and the peasants were
kept down out of sight as they made their way along the road hidden from
view. The Bridge went in 1952 but the dip remains and until the last local
road maintainer got made redundant never flooded because he and his ilk
knew when and how to keep a long drain and culvert clear.
Now it floods after even moderate rain and the road has been closed for
weeks, a local at his own expense did supply a diesel pump but after a
month could not afford to keep it running.
The Council denied that the aforementioned culvert even existed as the
contractors €œ Could not find it€�.
Well a local has since shown them, the council now say it was built in the
1700s , yes we knew that, it was working fine till you let it block up
recently . They claim it that as clearing or rebuilding it will cost about
300,000 they cant do it and they wont locals attempt themselves.

G H