AVOID THE POTHOLES

[Denise Lloyd]

Well I shall go for the sympathy vote now.  I am at home recovering from my 2nd knee replacement op arrived home Friday aft.  Today was the first time I looked out of the front door to take any notice (which I blame on all the pain killing drugs that I am taking) looked at my car FLAT TYRE.  It is immaterial that I am not allowed to drive for 6 weeks I do know how I did that tyre in.  I hit this pothole on the Vowchurch road just by the Holsty on Saturday 4th Feb.  I was amazed that it did not burst there and then.

 

Is there any time limit  in which to claim?

 

This will the third tyre since mid Sept I have not claimed before

 

As somebody said to me I bet you are glad you not a spider - think about it!!

[ragwert]

And most have to be refilled.Two on Barrs Ct Road bridge have been filled six times over the past three years

These two pot holes were again filled four weeks ago and now need filling again

[twowheelsgood]

As I said further up the thread, the steady trickle of faults logged on fixmystreet.com has turned into a veritable flood. It does seem that maintenance of our roads seems to have ground to an almost complete halt - really, what is going on? £20m a year to BBLP for this? Any Councillors care to advise?

[Denise Lloyd]

Comments from Councillors seem also to have ground to a halt -

[twowheelsgood]

Comments from Councillors seem also to have ground to a halt -

 

They'll be back come election time ...

[megilleland]

On 14/02/2017 at 20:42, megilleland said:

Government road spending: where the money is going

 

The Department of Transport has added flesh to the headline figures for roads in the chancellors recent autumn statement.

 

West Midlands funding

 

West Midlands potholes breakdown

 

Local Highway Authority - Herefordshire, County of UA

 

Pothole Fund allocation - £899,000

 

Number of potholes filled (at £53 per pothole) - 17,000

 

Highways Maintenance Block allocation for 2017/18 - £10,244,000

 

 

I think in Herefordshire it's a lost cause.

 

And now the RAC Foundation say that more than 3,000 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are substandard.

 

In Herefordshire the figures are:

 

670 Number of bridges in Herefordshire

20 Number of substandard bridges

3% Proportion of substandard bridges

1 Of which are intended to be returned to full load capacity in next 5 years

20 Of which, if no resource restrictions, that would be returned to full load carrying capacity

£5,929,200 Backlog (workbank)*

 

*Backlog is the amount of work required to bring the stock (of bridges/carriageways etc.) to a good – but not necessarily perfect condition.

 

 

[ragwert]

How many of them 17000 have had to be re filled due to not been filled correctly in the first place?

[Aylestone Voice]

Have just been out on my usual cycling route which includes the road from the Greenway to the Straight Mile at Rotherwas. The road also serves the BBLP depot.

Interestingly the potholes that were there last week have been filled. And No! it is not just chuck some tarmac in a hole - they have resurfaced whole sections.

Different rules apply it seems

[moretvicar]

I would say the state of HFDS roads is at an all time low - at least since two horses drowned in a hole on the turnpike from Hereford to Kington.

 

It seems there are very few repairs taking place, they also appear to be filtering what few holes they do repair. Increasingly I notice larger holes are filled but smaller (but still a pothole size) are ignored.

 

It is getting rediculous. No one seems to care and its impossible to take anyone to task.

[herefordman75]

Several very large ones appearing now between Clehonger and Madley. Three in a cluster on Bowling Green Pitch (heading towards Clehonger) just past the left turn into Clehonger, and a very large one, almost a 1/3rd of the way across the road, just before The Comet (same side - about 3/5 miles past the Eaton Bishop Turn).

[twowheelsgood]

Did no one tell the BBLP hole filling operatives to uphold the company values - build to last ...

[megilleland]

I hadn't realised that Painters is part of Balfour Beatty. A short video about Painters.

[herefordman75]

One of the clusters has been "filled" on Bowling Green Pitch at Clehonger - I say filled, more like had a shovel or two of loose tarmac chucked in and tamped flat - next bit of heavy rain and it will all be undone again.

[ragwert]

Seems to me they have not filled any holes in for the last 6 weeks.
The ones on College bridge are getting bigger by the day.

[herefordman75]

I did see they were digging up the nice new stuff they put in on Holme Lacy road this morning by the co op, looked like they were attacking the curb for some reason. Also a shame they didn't see fit to resurface as far as the traffic lights and the wye inn while they were at it.

[Denise Lloyd]

A little light reading for  the weekend

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiD4e_dze_SAhWBKsAKHZ12C_cQFggcMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.herefordshire.gov.uk%2Fdownloads%2Ffile%2F5210%2Fhighway_maintenance_plan_october_2016&usg=AFQjCNGe7_3FdxvjBZ5iUGNZcAoaocvrzQ&sig2=X0uzCsOE66ihC53KlW9rng

[herefordman75]

Do they actually read that themselves? There are several routes I regularly travel that are in a shocking state, and have been degrading over the last 18 months, so can't have been inspected. Do they actually have an inspector?