Hmm, Hot boxing seems to be whatever the council use these days. However
there are some junctions between TFL roads and Kingstons roads where the
person pulling out often needs to use a lot of power to get to the right
side of the road as no sod will let them out and guess wheat? The bit of
side road where they all hit the accelerator is breaking up.
Brian

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ARW wrote:

That is the councils second attempt after I phoned them up and gave them
a bollocking.

Looks like they only sent a bloke with a single bag of cold-lay tarmac
...

I'm not sure what they use for surfacing roads these days, but my
impression is that potholes are becoming more an more common. Near me
there is a trunk A road which is managed by the Highways Authority, rather
than the local council. That developed a series of potholes - for locals
it became a memory test to remember the sequence of them and which way you
needed to steer to avoid either clipping the kerb or going over the centre
line. Those were patched several times but after a few weeks most of the
tarmac had some out and we were back to square one. This is on a road
which gets a lot of heavy traffic so they should have used a suitable
repair.

They *can* get it right. When a lorry caught fire and melted a large patch
of the road surface, the road was repaired overnight by an emergency team,
and that bit of road is still as good as new after five years.

I think the problem is that they try to patch too small an area and don't
manage to stick the new tarmac sufficiently well to the existing surface,
so it comes out again. At the very least, they need to dribble tar around
the border between old and new to act as a seal to prevent water seeping
into the crack and doing the old freeze/thaw thing.

Of course you can't plan for idiots. There was a road in Scarborough along
the seafront which was newly surfaced. The local lads in their souped-up
cars like to parade up and down late and night, and then test their 0-60
acceleration. During a planned meet of car enthusiasts (all approved by
the police and the local council), one member decided to do wheelspins and
destroyed a large area of the surface. The organisers of the meeting were
appalled at this, and did not hesitate to shop his identity to the police.
There was talk of charging him the repair cost of the road...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-41686558