Fill that hole: Report pothole hazards on your routes - fix potholes

Rome's maintenance backlog is a pretty impressive achievement for a city that doesn't have hippy living in it:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/10/filling-a-gap-the-clandestine-gang-fixing-rome-illegally

I've threatened to do this in the past. I just need a source of tar and a shovel.

There is a sunken bit of road on the new northbound cycle path where Canonbury Road leads to Highbury Corner, just after the lights. I did not see in the dark probably because the tarmac is not cracked and there are no edges or lines. I ended up on the road with lots of cuts and a cracked helmet bot nothing broken. Reported on fillthathole.

Do you mean in the newly-resurfaced section? How bizarre, that sounds like sloppy work (being so new). Sorry to hear about the crash.

Yes, on the new surface. For some reason I cannot upload the picture of it and in any case it is difficult to see on the photo, looks like a darker patch of tarmac but is about 10cm deep.

You can see the steep angle of the road marking from this point of view.

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Yeah I can see that! hard to see when moving, hard luck. Worth chatting to council etc about poor work as its newly surface and push for replacement helmet!

I can't quite see it in the picture, but I assume it's in the centre--probably subsidence, could be from the recent works or an older spot that was missed. Things like this are fairly routine 'snagging' issues in traffic schemes. It's a little surprising in such a big scheme, but I didn't follow it and don't know what the scope of the work was. They should still have a small budget for things that arise after the scheme has opened. Then again ...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/pothole-claim-payouts-quadruple-in-a-year-amid-tfl-decision-to-pause-road-repairs-a4237501.html

lower line of white markings, fourth from the left. It is not a well designed traffic scheme in my opinion, especially the pedestrian crossings outside the tube station and the Hen and Chickens bar seem have to pedestrians walk into moving traffic.

Thanks, I thought you meant that spot--I just can't quite see the depression in the photograph. And yes, the scheme is rubbish, although not quite as bad as what is being built at Old Street/City Road. The outcome of a series of very bad decisions. Mind you, it was hard to know what to do there, but the best solution would have involved a significant loss of motor traffic capacity, which they didn't want.

As of a few days ago the hole is fixed but already subsiding again.

This one on Brixton road looks a bit sketchy. Will try and report over the weekend

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Ta

Thought there was a website for reporting holes? I was directed to Lambeth CC website and there was just an email address to send the details to.
I emailed them saying it could be a risk to life and sent the pictures guess so we'll see.

It's just the perfect spot for someone to go over the handlebars as their front wheel gets f&caked up

Looks like this one has been patched up a few times before too

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There are a couple:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/6181106/

Do you mean Lambeth Cyclists? I'm sure they can pass info on, but the A23 Brixton Road is the responsibility of Transport for London, and you should report it here (you can also call them):

https://tfl.gov.uk/help-and-contact/contact-us-about-streets-and-other-road-issues

I suspect that on StreetView (picture taken in March 2019), you can probably see JA Rattigan not doing a top-quality reinstatement. :)

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.473881,-0.1126395,3a,53.9y,242.55h,80.76t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZrSCiP6AQBJYRmcKFZwmcQ!2e0!5s20190301T000000!7i16384!8i8192

Eight or nine months on, their work seems to have been torn open.

Eight or nine months on, their work seems to have been torn open.

Has any UK council ever successfully repaired a road?

Obviously not the irrepairable damage that you cause, but where the average vehicle is less than 425,000 tonnes, there have been some successes. (TfL is the highway authority here, not the council.)

The main problem in London is that most streets are based on nothing very durable, have long histories of many successive layers of road-building/reinforcement, underground services, and consequent excavation and often subsidence under them, not to mention things like underground watercourses and the like.

This hole is not a very serious case of damage, although PQR is right that it's very hazardous for riders. In this case, I'm pretty certain that it would have been the private contractor pictured on StreetView that may or may not have worked for TfL. They evidently rebuilt whatever is under this service cover, but their reinstatement of the surround wasn't strong enough or should have been revisited some months later.

I see that kind of failed repair everywhere. The stuff just collapses back into the hole while cars knock the edges off and scatter 'repair despair' around it. One day they'll learn how to fix holes and repave sections of road properly. But I'll be gone by then and England will be heading underwater.

Well, it's obviosuly more likely that most of Spain will be underwater, and Britain raised up significantly.

Reinstatements should really be inspected and (mostly) be given a second going-over, as materials settle. The resulting unevenness is often what causes heavier impacts from passing vehicles. There are still reasonably good maintenance budgets around London (local authorities get about £4m a year), and I don't think the situation with respect to maintenance is worse now than it was before 'cuts', but, as ever, there is a delay in when lack of investment becomes evident.

Britain will be razed alright...

This is the best link to report a problem

https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/hazards/report

Edit - Sorry, just realised it’s in the link above

That's good for people who don't know where to turn, but if you do, the best way of reporting is really to the appropriate authority directly.

Why? fillthathole does the work for you, means your reports are in one place, means you're not scattering so much info around. What advantage is there to reporting directly?

Even marked holes are taking weeks or longer to get fixed. Its got to the point there are so many holes that it not worth reporting them. It takes weeks from reporting to the hole being fixed.