Road conditions.

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

Been doing a lot more driving recently and noticed how poor the roads are especially around Hartlepool, big potholes all over the shop.

Seagull, Seagull, Seagull. · **Joined:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:44 pm **Posts:** 477

Same in the NW. I do a bit of cycling so am very aware of it. Often absolutely atrocious.

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Not defending the council but I noticed a lot of potholes appearing over the winter so presumably the weather has caused the roads to break up more than they would.

That said, cold weather is not alien to this country so if the weather is a cause then surely they would of used appropriate materials and not a cheaper option?

horden · **Posted:** Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:54 am

A lot of reasons, less money means less maintenance, a culture of patching things up rather than doing a proper job, and job could be outsourced to cheapest bidder, gang of lads from out of town with no pride in what they are doing cos its not their town, using the cheapest materials. Cheap and nasty Britain, bish bash bosh, straight in straight out, leaving a mess in the process, that someone else will have to clear up further down the line. Would be cheaper all round if they did a good job in the first place, but that's Britain for you. Got to keep the Shareholders happy.

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

The roads are in a shocking state everywhere. Even the motorways! I was on a 22 mile stretch of the M6 before Christmas that has the average speed cameras in and the lorry lane (middle lane during the repairs because they were using the hard shoulder) had massive potholes every couple of hundred yards.

dstanley · **Joined:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:15 pm **Posts:** 677

I have always maintained that the health of the economy can be judged by the state of the roads because it is the easiest cost centre to cut when things are bad financially. The roads do not disappear or stop working when money is tight!

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19738

pointless waste of money doing roads up when you have bloody speed humps all over the place or the gas or water blokes digging em up on a regular basis.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Roads

yloop · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:31 am

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Roads

Where we're going we dont need... roads.

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

We have always driven on the left of the road, now we drive on what's left of the road!

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:12 pm

Same all over the country. It's just the start of the austerity shite really biting now. If you think public services are poor now, give it a couple of years when councils get nothing off central government.

yloop · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:46 pm

poolieinnottingham wrote:

Same all over the country. It's just the start of the austerity shite really biting now. If you think public services are poor now, give it a couple of years when councils get nothing off central government.

And we have no European funding to bridge the gap...

Still though...

Road conditions.

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