The problem is that once the road surface is broken and water gets underneath then freezes it destroys a much larger area of road that the original pothole. If only the money and effort put into raising humps had been put into filling potholes. Time for a 'smooth roads' campaign. Get rid of humps and holes. Apparently around £35,000,000 a year is spent by councils repairing potholes and £60,000,000 on compensation for damage caused by them.
HJ
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Conspiracy theory? Perhaps. Certainly the current state of the roads is a disgrace. I have damaged more tyres and wheels in the last 4 years than in the all the previous 35 years of driving.There could be an argument for now buying a 4x4 with big tyres to counteract the ruts, bumps, and potholes. Although then you would pay a tax and fuel premium, so you still lose out. Also have you noticed how most traffic lights and road junction layouts are now designed to slow the flow of traffic, rather than to ease it? The more time we all spend on our journeys than the more fuel revenue for the government.
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oooh oooh ooooh i have one, they arent potholes there exit holes for the mole people that the government has denied exsist
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Do you mean the Morlocks, welshlad? They eat people.
HJ
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A large part of the problem is the hydraulic effect caused by the water in the hole and a car tyre squishing into it. This is what is responsible for the small hole in the road suddenly made larger, and surrounded by a "halo" of broken-up road surface.
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We've got the potholes, we have had the snow and the 'enhanced' potholes .... and today? We have the floods.
Our lane has been vastly 'improved' by the council over the past two years "re-instating" the verges (their words, when I rang to ask what was being done) - which, of course, prevents rain running off the road and into the ditches. Last time I saw workmen doing this, I asked if they had ever been in the lane when it rained, so they would know where to put gaps - what a silly question.
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