Potholes.

[Rhodesianjess]

Funny you should mention that, my mother-in-law told me every village had a couple of roadmen, they were responsible for a few miles of roads each, and it was very competitive as to who kept the best roads. No such thing as a pothole, she used a pony & trap to travel between villages.

Talked to old keepers early on in my keepering days, they said they would give the roadmen a shilling for every partridge or pheasant nest they spotted in the roadside hedge. The keeper then transferred the eggs to broody hens.
The stick was generally marked with a blazed stick if I recall correctly.

 

[Bo Diddley]

Talked to old keepers early on in my keepering days, they said they would give the roadmen a shilling for every partridge or pheasant nest they spotted in the roadside hedge. The keeper then transferred the eggs to broody hens.
The stick was generally marked with a blazed stick if I recall correctly.

That's how life should be now, fantastic times.
The old keeper who took me under his wing and steered me down the right path always put as many early clutches under broodies, the coops lined up like soldiers on the patch of grass at the end of Askew's Belt, the poults would be eased into the wood with hand feeding 3 x a day...
I remember it all so clearly, happy times for a young lad.

 

[v1ktor]

While the pot hole issue is a serious matter - especially as more and more local council fraud is coming to light - there is also the issue of bad driving.

The number of drivers that never move to avoid a pothole os slow down for a speed bump is astounding.
I suspect it is linked to an inability to know, or want to know how a car works, that offers an insanely ignorant level of mechanical sympathy.

 

[Demetrius]

More likely having so much money that they can afford not to give a s**t, and just take a chance, or they have an SUV on lease....

D.

 

[Camdig]

Ive been waiting on a political party being created called the Tarmacers "paving a new future" steam rolling through problems.
In all seriousness roads are the main infrastructure of the UK they should be modernised and maintained to tbe highest standards, drainage properly health with another pet hate, trees and bushes covering signs and growing onto road pushing vehicles into the middle of the road.
Its a disgrace the state of roads.

 

[Scarpa]

I've spent a couple of decades managing both motorway and local authority networks. The average council receives about a fifth of the money required to get their roads to to top standard. High pressure material blasting works well on rural roads with small potholes as a single wagon can fix 90 per day, but many of the roads really need full resurfacing which is pretty expensive, also requiring the traffic management, diversion routes etc. Not to mention the 50 year old drainage systems running under the roads which was never designed to cope with the rapid intensive rainfall we now get. What we are currently doing is putting multiple sticking plasters on the worst areas.

 

[Mountain Bug]

If only there was a group that was good at tarmacking and mobile enough to travel round the country fixing roads.


Scott

 

[Smellydog]

In all seriousness roads are the main infrastructure of the UK

Don't need them anymore, we have HS2 soon

 

[Dave_45]

Once met a bloke nicknamed pothole.

Just about doubled over when I found out he didn’t know it was his nickname but he was called so because …

“Everyone avoids him, like they would a pothole”