Pot Holes

Can you supply proper links for all that?

You obviously work for the council, do not drive a car, want cycle lanes so you can cycle to work, hate the Daily Mail, and have knowledge of everything including the inside workings of a hedgehog.

I wish I had you as a teacher when I was younger....I would be PM by now.

Supply links? Like you do? I can't be bothered tonight. Ask any highways engineer though. Take a bike along my favourite roads, over places like Otterburn, and you can see the causes of the damage.

Cycle to work? Not me mate. Work from home and use the car when I have to.

I know nothing about hedgehogs, except that if handled wrongly then, like the BNP they involve a lot of pricks.

Lord knows what you might have been if you'd had a teacher when you were younger - would tolerance have been too much to hope for?

More whinging going on as usual. I mean what does it cost to throw in a bag or two of rapid setting post concrete. A few quid and your road is sorted. I suppose if it had gravel on it you'd think it was a driveway.

For gods sake, you'll all be demanding climate control next. Put that on the agenda in your next council tax meeting.

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i was just saying yesterday glad we in the car and not bike, holes everywhere.

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So, you're a poor downtrodden taxpayer. Do you think council employees get their pay tax free for doing no work?

Tax free? No. For doing no work......undoubtedly yes in some instances

You do know that many unclassified roads haven't been properly rebuilt since they were laid between world war one and two don't you? You do know that greedy farmers who grub our hedges and fill in ditches have screwed up the drainage on many unclassified roads don't you? You do know that unplanned for levels of parking on urban roads make it impossible to do gully clearance, meaning drains block and roads flood more frequently don't you? That's when they're not being flooded by block paved driveways that channel rainwater straight onto roads....

Oh, and that most of our roads were engineered when the maximum weight of an HGV was half of what it is today....

swcpl2005 are correct about the roads being laid correctly in the first place. I travel on the "new" dual carriageway that runs behind Shiremoor on a daily basis. This road is less than 2 years old and is already falling apart........and as far as I'm aware it's not prone to flooding and is not heavily used ( if at all) by HGVs

A standard car has 2 wheels which are driven, from which comes the necessary torque to erode the roads and create potholes. a 4x4 has four driven wheels thus creating twice as much erosion. And I expect every 4x4 driver had all wheels engaged, that's the whole point of having such a vehicle.

people are envious of power and its potential but not if its used incorrectly, unwisely or wastefully.

I have to deal with that all the time......

Well, given that I don't work in your council's road's department, and I have no detailed knowledge of how how much money is gathered and spent or what things cost, I'd say... what I said above: when they prepared their budgets last year, they weren't expecting this to happen, so they didn't put the money aside for it. Because all councils and governments are under pressure to only tax what they really need, and most (all?) of them are running deficits, it's simply not going to be possible for them to bank up massive contingency funds against freak occurrences.

This WAS a freak occurrence and it happened towards the end of the tax year. So they will have already spent the money last year.

The roads departments in all the councils will doubtless be asking for an increase in next year's budget to pay for this (remember last year's budget was spent on the normal things, normal levels of road maintenance, equipment maintenance, grit etc). Depending whether the councils grant it, when the new budgets are allocated in April you will probably see the work start.

But basically: all the things you want your council to do cost money. This was an unexpected event they hadn't budgeted for. They did not have the money sitting around to pay for it, because they already spent it on all the other things you want them to do.