Quality of pothole repair

I remember there was a road in central Swindon that was on a main bus route, and this section of the road was getting a crater emerge every other week. Someone came out probably once a month to patch it up, but i guess the surrounding part of the road wasn't structurally sound which meant the patch never lasted.

I think it was about 2 years, and eventually someone came out and took off quite a large part of the top layer of the road, and resurfaced it. I believe it's now been fine ever since.

It does make you laugh though, i appreciate it's much cheaper to patch. But surely they must assess "hotspots" that constantly need patching and thus actually cost more to patch up than for a small area resurfacing.
 
We do a bit of work for one of these road repair companies, they've said that they have the ability to perform a perfect repair but the council won't authorise the cost. Instead they have to do a simple patch knowing fine well it'll break up and they'll be back before long.
 
Manholes and drains are an issue as well I find, they totally seem incapable of making the road level with them.

Liquidfox said:
We do a bit of work for one of these road repair companies, they've said that they have the ability to perform a perfect repair but the council won't authorise the cost. Instead they have to do a simple patch knowing fine well it'll break up and they'll be back before long.
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Yet they are fine to spend multi-millions on rural speed cameras. On roads so bad you can't even drive above 30mph without getting rattled to death :/
 
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Roads by me are awful, i've reported on several occasions the state of the sunken manholes, potholes and gravel that's everywhere. They just seem to note down the info and that's all.
 
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