I will be their worst nightmare......

[m2n]

So the council had decided to resurface the road leading into mine... Kind of.... All they done was fill in the craters and sinkholes and leave tons of loose chippings. So now I have to drive at -1 mph and the stones still fly up off the wheels doing god knows what to my R75.. Yesterday an articulated lorry decided to drive by at Mach 4 and shower my car with meteorites.
Mad...me...angry.... me no I am f****** furious. Lorry driver was polish and disappeared without stopping. I hope the road workers come back so I can rip their souls out and shove them up their a********.

[steve1975]

I feel your pain,same thing happened to me.

[marinabrian]

Best of luck with that one Mike

The local council contracted the resurfacing (if you can call it that) of the road I live on to an outfit called Colas.

The surface dressing is what they referred to as microasphalt, basically a cold emulsion of black cack, with little pebbles in the mix, which in the case of the oafs who spread this junk all over the road outside the house in torrential rain, doesn't adhere to the road deck.

This is something I tend to sweep up every few weeks, and fill a wheelbarrow just to prevent having the side of my car pebbledashed by every other car passing by, and the gutters and gulleys becoming choked.

Letters of complaint to the council resulted in not even an highways engineer calling to inspect, and one year on the weeds are poking though the surface...........I wonder who got the brown envelope on this particular contract

Brian

[m2n]

Originally Posted by marinabrian

Best of luck with that one Mike

The local council contracted the resurfacing (if you can call it that) of the road I live on to an outfit called Colas.

The surface dressing is what they referred to as microasphalt, basically a cold emulsion of black cack, with little pebbles in the mix, which in the case of the oafs who spread this junk all over the road outside the house in torrential rain, doesn't adhere to the road deck.

This is something I tend to sweep up every few weeks, and fill a wheelbarrow just to prevent having the side of my car pebbledashed by every other car passing by, and the gutters and gulleys becoming choked.

Letters of complaint to the council resulted in not even an highways engineer calling to inspect, and one year on the weeds are poking though the surface...........I wonder who got the brown envelope on this particular contract

Brian

I will make sure that their guide dogs have drinking water next time they visit....

[paul d]

Originally Posted by marinabrian

Best of luck with that one Mike

The local council contracted the resurfacing (if you can call it that) of the road I live on to an outfit called Colas.

The surface dressing is what they referred to as microasphalt, basically a cold emulsion of black cack, with little pebbles in the mix, which in the case of the oafs who spread this junk all over the road outside the house in torrential rain, doesn't adhere to the road deck.

This is something I tend to sweep up every few weeks, and fill a wheelbarrow just to prevent having the side of my car pebbledashed by every other car passing by, and the gutters and gulleys becoming choked.

Letters of complaint to the council resulted in not even an highways engineer calling to inspect, and one year on the weeds are poking though the surface...........I wonder who got the brown envelope on this particular contract

Brian

Goes to show how stupid some councils are. Colas are to intents and purposes a RAIL company,

[Groundsman Willie]

It's all about the money. Whoever puts in the cheapest price, gets the contract regardless of the quality. If the council gets too many complaints they just pass the buck onto the contractors.

[marinabrian]

Originally Posted by paul d

Goes to show how stupid some councils are. Colas are to intents and purposes a RAIL company,

Take a look at the blurb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=DjmIegCD7eg

Let's just say it doesn't live up to the glossy brochure

[roverbarmy]

It's all spray and spread here in Norfolk. Chippings everywhere! Thinking of buying shares in a windscreen and respray company!

[bendrick]

Originally Posted by marinabrian

Best of luck with that one Mike

The local council contracted the resurfacing (if you can call it that) of the road I live on to an outfit called Colas.

The surface dressing is what they referred to as microasphalt, basically a cold emulsion of black cack, with little pebbles in the mix, which in the case of the oafs who spread this junk all over the road outside the house in torrential rain, doesn't adhere to the road deck.

This is something I tend to sweep up every few weeks, and fill a wheelbarrow just to prevent having the side of my car pebbledashed by every other car passing by, and the gutters and gulleys becoming choked.

Letters of complaint to the council resulted in not even an highways engineer calling to inspect, and one year on the weeds are poking though the surface...........I wonder who got the brown envelope on this particular contract

Brian

Why haven't you contact your local county councillor to come and have a look and ask him / her to have the matter addressed with the head of Highways.


Every time over the last six years since being elected if I have noticed a road problem or whenever I have been contacted by a local resident with a problem I have immediately contacted the Head of Highways for my local authority asked for a site meeting with him or one of his senior officers and got deficiencies sorted out. (that unfortunately doesn't mean that every single pothole has been filled on the spot due to budgetary restrictions ) but every major one and most of the minor ones and any other road surface or other Highways issues have been sorted in reasonably short order sometimes I have to refer back if I think that an isssue is taking to long to be dealt with but They all get done in my experience

Thats what councilors are for, although of course I can't vouch for your local councillors or your council.

[75driver]

The loose road chippings were the culprit for a nice brand new golf ball sized / shaped crack in the gold saloon windscreen on Friday.😡
Then came home to find the silver saloon sitting low on the passenger side - broken spring.😩
I’d left it at me Mam’s, with the intention of getting its windscreen replaced. The frost done it in ( had a slight chip in it since I owned it).
That’s one for repair and one for replacement now.😤


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