Potholes costing motorists £1million a day

[dekez]

I ride a motorbike into work and have nearly come off a few times due to pot holes, I try to learn where they are but it is a nightmare. Going slowly on a pot hole is even worse than going fast as your wheel drops further into them and your stability is lower anyway because of the reduced speed.

What actually causes them? Is is just poor surface quality and shoddy workman ship? Some of these pot holes seem to just spring up over night and I don't see how 1/2 a foot of concrete can just vanish!

 

[stockhausen]

I believe that a lot of the problem is due to cowboy contractors being allowed to dig up roads and then make a bad job of filling in the holes - a perhaps inevitable consequence of utilities deregulation and Councils being forced to contract work out to the lowest bidder.

Having said that, I think that I can recall reading that they got a whole lot worse after this year's inclement weather

 

[Gaygle]

I swear kent has possibly the worst roads i have ever driven on. The amount of potholes is absolutely mind blowing. One of my alloys has also been slightly buckled and i'm 100% convinced that it's because of one road in canterbury that i drive on regularly. There must be about 40 pot holes along a 400m road, with hundreds more of the bodged filled in job. I just can't understand why they don't resurface it?

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

The Alfa's been raped by the poor quality of our roads up in Aberdeen, it's a ******* disgrace. You can't even drive round most of them now due to size or the fact you'll hit another one...
It'd be smoother driving on a dirt track in Ethiopia.

I look forward to the garage bill at the end of the month...

Edit: I actually think the slow lane of the A90 between Stonehaven and Aberdeen is ruined now. Must cause a bit of damage every day...