polygonum_on_google wrote:
On Monday, 20 January 2020 20:20:37 UTC, 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

Many roads were built to standards appropriate to small, horsedrawn
wagons - at the largest - and single-track at that. They now have to cope
with gigantic agricultural machinery, articulated and rigid lorries, SUVs
the size of houses, and others which were not even imagined at the time.
Even where they are slightly wider, they might have to cope with traffic
in both directions - each going slightly further to the left than they really should.

The folly could be in allowing these vehicles on roads that were not
built to take them and not upgraded. Or in not upgrading them.


We have a situation near here where there is facility that makes compost or
soil conditioning material from green waste located on what was once a
dairy farm.
Not a bad business as it gives a few jobs and is agricultural related, the
trouble is they have a contract
with the adjoining county to take their green waste from a good part of it
which means daily there multiple movements of refuse vehicles to and fro on
what was a narrow lane whose maintenance
falls to the county in which it is located a couple of miles from the
border . Despite representations from them to the other for at least their
drivers to take care the county whose lorries are doing the damage has
basically said tough .
If it was really narrow and single track it might be better as at least the
buggers would have to pass with one stopped , as it is they pass by one or
the other putting nearside wheels right on or beyond the edge of the tarmac
breaking it off at the edge which is has now narrowed the usable width by
up to 3ft or more in places but they still pass and now there are large
ruts on each side of the broken tarmac.
Drains and ditches have been blocked by displaced mud etc and the ruts in
the soft ground are now getting on for 2ft deep, one of the drivers of a
cart I was following almost got their come upance the other day when he
pulled into a rut they would have had a hand in making without slowing.
They went over so far I thought it was going to topple and must have been a
brown trouser moment.In a way it was a pity it didnt , I wouldnt want to
see the driver hurt but it might get some attention to the issue.

GH