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Major roadworks now complete

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 9, 2024, 10:41 am

Only took 4 months and then ran over budget

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: Major roadworks now complete

Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 9, 2024, 11:19 am, in reply to "Major roadworks now complete"

Paid by the square yard i think. Its funny in my road that there are major water main leaks for 20 years and water pushing up the tarmac. Every few years, someone will mark the area for repair but no one does it. Big rusty patch on the road now. At the end of the road, a large section had pothole repairs but the tarmac stopped about 1 foot short so the last pothole remained as the paint marking had worn away so they only repaired what the paint marking was indicating.
A lot of repairs are being done locally but losing the battle

Re: Major roadworks now complete

Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 9, 2024, 11:59 am, in reply to "Re: Major roadworks now complete"

The logic of road repairs is beyond me. The B road I live off has a couple of short sections that seem to be redressed/surfaced every couple of years. The rest of it has not been touched in many years despite being in a far worse state of repair.

Re: Major roadworks now complete

Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 9, 2024, 1:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Major roadworks now complete"

A section of my local B road was resurfaced last Friday. It has had problems with flash floods & standing water ever since the farmer grubbed out a hedge and ploughed a field that was previously a grazing.
Anyway, when they re-surfaced it they discovered the drains were broken. So with breathtaking efficiency they decided to complete the resurfacing, boasting the job was successfully completed on schedule, but simultaneously announced they would return this Tuesday to dig up & repair the drains.

Re: Major roadworks now complete

Posted by pete__s <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=pete__s' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 9, 2024, 8:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Major roadworks now complete"

Don't blame the contractor. Blame the penpushing box tickers who employ them.

If they go back to base saying they didn't do the job because it was sensible to do the drains first, they won't get paid and there is no guarantee they get the drains job.

Getting paid is vital to them

Re: Major roadworks now complete

Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 9, 2024, 11:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Major roadworks now complete"

In my area there's incompetent bureaucrats, incompetent councillors and incompetent contractors. They all have their snouts in the trough of public money without any sense of duty to the people who they are meant to serve.

Re: Major roadworks now complete

Posted by Nigel B <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Nigel+B' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 10, 2024, 10:15 am, in reply to "Re: Major roadworks now complete"

In my area there's incompetent bureaucrats, incompetent councillors and incompetent contractors. They all have their snouts in the trough of public money without any sense of duty to the people who they are meant to serve.

Is that not a description of British Standard Local Govenement nationwide, Will ?

Nigel B.

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