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Lets get the roads fixed
mangogrooveworkshop - 15/1/11 at 05:34 PM

http://www.fixmystreet.com/

use this site to report the holes in your roads

mad4x4 - 15/1/11 at 06:00 PM

the ammount of potholes in Aberdeenshire would probably be better reporting the "good bits of road"

smart51 - 15/1/11 at 06:04 PM

Councils pay for road repairs in their area. Councils have just had big budget cuts and are laying off staff. Most councils will be wanting to save money. Pot holes may not be their first priority.

Peteff - 15/1/11 at 06:10 PM

It's like a third world country the state of the roads round here at the moment. Some of them have been temporarily filled but there are some which are more like ponds than potholes. It will be cheaper to repair the roads than fight the cases for damages coming in soon.

austin man - 15/1/11 at 06:26 PM

the village and surrounding towns where I live are that bad that they could safely remove the speed bumps and still have more than adequate traffic calming.

Really glad I work and pay my taxes

r1_pete - 15/1/11 at 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by austin man
the village and surrounding towns where I live are that bad that they could safely remove the speed bumps and still have more than adequate traffic calming.

Really glad I work and pay my taxes


You're not joking, look to the kerb and it wont be long before you see bits of broken road spring!!

I had a broken leaf spring on my L200 at its 1st MOT, and I'm ashamed to say its never been offroad.

Moorron - 15/1/11 at 07:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by smart51
Councils pay for road repairs in their area. Councils have just had big budget cuts and are laying off staff. Most councils will be wanting to save money. Pot holes may not be their first priority.


That maybe so, but thats between themselves and the goverment. The goverment has charged us to maintain the roads and we pay so i expect it to be done. Its very dangerous for the roads to be left like this and they dont seem to care about safety when its not bringing in money but costing. My road is awfull and thats just the pot holes. The fact the white lines dont exist on the junction is discusting as that wasnt caused by a bad winter its just bad or non existent policy to keep them roadworthy.

They caused the problems of potholes by not checking the roads for signs of failure, the ice just quickened it up. It would have been cheaper in the long run to maintain them correctly. I dont like being charged for something thats not done

The problem with the cuts is it will be in areas that effect us all reducing the people who do some work, it should be the high paid managers who dont 'manage' that should be let go. Saving lots more money and reducing very little in efficiency.

Ninehigh - 15/1/11 at 08:10 PM

I've read several articles on removing a lot of road signs and painted lines for safety, the plan being that it makes each driver pay more attention. No idea if it works but 90% of the roads I travel down don't need a line to show the middle

mangogrooveworkshop - 15/1/11 at 08:52 PM

quote:
Originally posted by smart51
Councils pay for road repairs in their area. Councils have just had big budget cuts and are laying off staff. Most councils will be wanting to save money. Pot holes may not be their first priority.



Councils are being given an extra £15m from the Scottish Government to help fix damage to Scotland's roads caused by the winter weather. The funding is three times the amount paid out last year. A Government spokesman said the money would be available for urgent repairs on roads and to cover the extra costs of winter roads maintenance.

black fingernail - 15/1/11 at 08:59 PM

that incredibly expensive, pretty round piece of paper used to be called a road fund licence, now it is just called a tax disc. where is this vast amount of dosh going? it certainly aint funding roads anymore. rant over

coyoteboy - 25/1/11 at 09:49 AM

"Road tax" hasn't been about roads for a long time. And I suppose all in all it's really just all going into the same pot anyway, it's just a lack of concentration on roads and not wanting to encourage road use due to the un-green (brown?) nature of it. I find it pretty shocking that they can spend millions a year on researching sign types/shapes/colours, traffic flow measurement kit etc, but don't get the basics right.

I'm currently working on a system that should flood them with fault reports, maybe then they'll see the scale of the problem.

Davegtst - 25/1/11 at 10:13 AM

Maybe if they guys working on the M25 actually did something once in a while there would be more money to spend on the smaller roads. I'm on that road nearly every day and for months now nothing seems to have changed, usually it's just 4 or 5 blokes standing round a hole smoking. Another thing, whats with all the cones every where? There are tens of thousands of them. last night nearly the whole of the top section of the M25 was coned into 1 or 2 lanes with no-one working on in the road for miles at a time. Is there no room to store them or is Mr cone manufacturer getting a nice bung from someone.