Rant 75 - 15/3/12 Subject: Potholes potholes potholes

Rant number 75


Today on the way home at 50mph for about 15 miles, I did not see a single person - working or otherwise.

I mean - what's the point of coning off the whole fucking motorway if you are nowhere to be seen?

It got me thinking about where they go when they are no-where to be seen. I can only guess in some shed/portaloo; watching/reading porn and drinking copious cups of tea.

In truth though, this is a guess. There is no way for me to know what they are really doing.

Except


There is one thing I can quantifiably say that they are not doing.

And that is filling in any potholes!

Huddersfield where I live is like pothole central. From above the road looks like a acne ridden teenagers face! Between my house and the roundabout I cross on the way to work each day, you could literally count hundreds, if not thousands of the bloody thing.

Our roads are used and abused. Someone or other is always digging it up & filling it in (but never quite the same as before,) overweight lories chew up the surface and we generally just use them to death.

The solution is surely simple: fill them in.

To you or me, this seems pretty basic stuff - but to councils not so. There are cones to put out for endless roadworks on the fucking M62 for instance - there would be risk assessments, a 5 week closure of the road to repair one 25cm square pothole and endless other reasons to not do it.

So what do they do? Simple, they sweep it under the carpet.

By all accounts the pothole and road resurfacing schedule is 10 years behind.
I will repeat that... 10 years..


Was there no point between 1-9 years where they thought 'this is getting out of hand?'
You'd think they would! I fucking would.

Its a ballache, it really is. Its no good for your tires, no good for your suspension it makes your ride uncomfortable. Its crap that they make no effort to do anything about it.

And if I may go back to the huge petrol taxes we pay, you'd think that they could actually use some of it to fix the fucking roads we have to use!

Rant over.