On 24/03/2018 12:10, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:44:34 +0000, NY wrote:

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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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

I think one cause is the force of HGV wheels turning when manoeuvring
while stationary. They just start digging a pit and then water and ice
rip it to shreds.

They should ban power steering. Especially on cars. Wimps.

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Max Demian