This is the Government website reporting on how the £7.3b fund for pothole repair is getting spent. I live in Co Durham, we're Amber so not too bad, but the devil is in the detail when you dig into it. Looking back at my riding in '25 we've been complaining about road closures and traffic lights for road repairs rather than potholes for the first time in many a year. This a good thing, but quiet rural roads are far easier to close and repair than busy urban and trunk roads. So how is everything progressing in other areas?
Well.... where i live the usual pothole repairs failed multiple times in the last couple of years or so. Last year they actually resurfaced some road which hopefully will last longer. But after the cold and wet weather recently loads of new potholes are appearing, some roads here are really bad. I find in the car iam looking out for potholes rather than looking further ahead... really bad practice on car or bike really...
Derbyshire is on the bad list, I try to get out of Derbyshire on my bike and prefer Lincolnshire....
Birminham is a right sxxt show, But they are starting to work on some of the main routes at night so to reduce any congestion. Plus they may have got the timing right regarding the weather, unless they put the new serface down without getting enought heat into the road for it to bond together and get a decent life span out of the serface.
Its not difficult to note that nowadays a lot of roads seem to “split / tear” along what I would assume are the join lines from applying layers of tarmac side by side. This being particularly noticed around islands where side loading produced by vehicles would be evident.
Does anyone remember the old days when road gangs, steamrollers and rakes were used to spread the tarmac?
Could modern methods of machine laying be causing a big percentage of the damage? particularly around corners and islands which can make lane changes a real bitch – and even when resurfaced come back after a few months?
No pete your right, it is caused by not sealing the joints with a hot liquid bitumin that glued to seams together so they didnt open up with the cold temp. It was stopped as they said that hot rolling didnt require it to be sealed but when it has sat in a line of 15 trucks waiting to tip into the road layer its not that hot enough to stick properly after the to sections are layed up to an hour apart.
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