On 20/01/2020 20:20, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
Who would build a road without proper edges. Seems to me the fault is built
in and its only stupid people who build such roads in the first place.
Brian


That description would include almost all rural roads. Round here they
have taken to adding kerbs to some bends which has the interesting
effect of creating a flooded area for aquaplaning whenever it rains.
There is no mains drainage on a lot of them either.

Even when they redo the roads as they did round here for those that were
on the Tour de Yorkshire route they still replaced like with like and if
anything made the soft verges even softer so that they rutted deeper.

Part of the problem is routing serious traffic along tiny rural roads in
the event of failure of one of the major trunk roads.

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Regards,
Martin Brown