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

The recent weather has only highlighted what has been an ongoing problem for a number of years and that is a lack of investment in an already crumbling road network, particularly in the South east ( and else where I'm sure). Roads that have been topped dressed with a coat of tarmac only serve to cover up underlying problems that snow and ice have now uncovered. In my area around Tonbridge/Tunbridge Wells (Kent) we still have potholes that are left over from last years bad weather.
So whats the answer? well more investment by local councils to fix the problems but they haven't got the money or so they keep telling us in the mean time we all have to take even more care out on the roads much to the disgust of car driving non bikers who wonder why we are sat in the middle of the road or weaving our way through pothole hell.
Is now the time for all cyclists, clubs, forums, LBS, and the bigger chains to join together in a national campaign to get Government and Borough/Town councils to fix the roads properly so we can ride without damage to ourseleves or indeed our bikes.

Just a thought

Blame Thatcher.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1991/ukpga_19910022_en_1

http://www.lfgss.com/thread31679.html

Another thread about potholes.

Blame Thatcher.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1991/ukpga_19910022_en_1

You can also blame the anti-road protest movement of the last 20 years. The exactly the same blinkered fools who are protesting against Heathrow airport expansion, and who protest against nuclear energy. These environmentalists, with their direct-action protests in the 90's, made it impossible for the government to implement any proper new road-building, resulted in cutbacks to maintenance, and helped bring about serious underinvestment to the road network.

Now we are in a situation where we have seen large increases in motor vehicle traffic on our roads over the last 20 years, but it has not matched by appropriate increases in the funding of road maintenance. Couple this with contractors only do half a job of filling potholes with poor quality materials, and our bad weather, and you get to the despicable state our roads are in now.

These environmentalists

Those evil cunts.

You can also blame the anti-road protest movement of the last 20 years. The exactly the same blinkered fools who are protesting against Heathrow airport expansion, and who protest against nuclear energy. These environmentalists, with their direct-action protests in the 90's, made it impossible for the government to implement any proper new road-building, resulted in cutbacks to maintenance, and helped bring about serious underinvestment to the road network.

Now we are in a situation where we have seen large increases in motor vehicle traffic on our roads over the last 20 years, but it has not matched by appropriate increases in the funding of road maintenance. Couple this with contractors only do half a job of filling potholes with poor quality materials, and our bad weather, and you get to the despicable state our roads are in now.

Road building does not sort out the traffic problem. This has been show time and time again (M25 effect e.t.c), the problem is that transport is not seen a serious post with in UK politics so any good coherent plans are never followed through over the long term. Attempts made by politicians tend just be patches. Add to this the fear o change mentality that every human being has within them to the fact that British transport policy has been going down the wrong road for years (so people don't want to move off of the bad route as that is change) and it make life even harder to get anything done.

If these pot holes get any worse i'll have to buy a 4x4.

If these pot holes get any worse i'll have to buy a 4x4.

I bought this instead........

Are you allowed to park that on the pavement...

Are you allowed to park that on the pavement...

Its loaded I can park anywhere I want to ;p

I bought this instead........

Are you planning to take some pot-shots?

Hole in one?

(sorry...i'm leaving)

Potholes on Radio 2 now!

One man's solution to this winter's worsening pothole solution: planting flowers.

According to the Guardian cycling blog, Pete Dungey has been tirelessly ridding Oxford of its potholes by filling them up with primroses...* Pete currently works alone but he's hoping other people will follow his example. If you do, he's asking you to take a snap and email it to him via his website.

*

hmm car tyre fail ??

Tired of cycling into big holes in the road?
Board of getting your wheels trued?
Sick of worrying if the road is going to swallow you up and spit you out in to little bits?
Fed up swerving into traffic to avoid that tarmac sink-hole that wasn't there yesterday?

Report potholes here… maybe they will start to fix some.

**http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/reportastreetfault/newfault.aspx

EDIT: **www.fillthathole.org.uk has more success.

Cheers reported my first pothole.

www.fillthathole.org.uk is run by the CTC - has a track record of success too, which is more than you can say for TfL.

Dear TFL, there are loads of potholes on every road in London. A list would be ridiculous.

Tempted to report Waterloo bridge...

www.fillthathole.org.uk is run by the CTC - has a track record of success too, which is more than you can say for TfL.

Yup, that's where you should send the reports.

Some of the potholes out there are enormous at the moment. There's one on Piccadilly heading towards the Ritz from Hyde Park Corner that is large enough to easily fit a 700 wheel into.

Tempted to report Waterloo bridge...

or anywhere inside the M25

Can you report the contractors doing work for Thames Water? Just follow them around. They leave dangerous tarmac in their wake wherever they go.

watch out for a huge one at the top of the strand heading east bound over aldwych.

my front wheel went in and came out with huge dent in the rim, flat tyre and broken spokes. hit it so hard the bars twisted in the stem, lucky i was riding a stove or it could have been way worse

If you fall off your bike and hurt yourself, can you sue the council, or at the very least force them to repair it so that nobody else gets hurt?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread36194.html

info here. Which leads to here:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread35827.html