POTHOLES!! Name and Shame.
Discussion
I don't know if anyone else gets as irate as I do over the state of the roads in Hertfordshire but I thought I'd vent some anger on here and maybe try get something done about them.
I very regularly use the Herts Highways Fault reporting website, but it seems that in the last few months, they just don't bother repairing the holes when you report them.
Does anyone else use this website? I was thinking if enough people started to name and shame the really bad holes we could collectively get them sorted??
I know it's a long shot, but I can't be the only one fed up with ruining their cars on these sub standard roads?
I'll start with a few...
1) HARPENDEN - St Albans Road between Silver Cup and Walkers Road.
2) PARK STREET - Frogmore near Curo Park junction
I very regularly use the Herts Highways Fault reporting website, but it seems that in the last few months, they just don't bother repairing the holes when you report them.
Does anyone else use this website? I was thinking if enough people started to name and shame the really bad holes we could collectively get them sorted??
I know it's a long shot, but I can't be the only one fed up with ruining their cars on these sub standard roads?
I'll start with a few...
1) HARPENDEN - St Albans Road between Silver Cup and Walkers Road.
2) PARK STREET - Frogmore near Curo Park junction
k me its big.I used the reporting facility a few times over the last couple of years, but the holes were rarely fixed so I just gave up. I have written to my local paper and MP's a few times on the subject though, and the Lib Dems did follow it up with a campaign.
Harpenden Road, at the turn off to the St.A Girls School - the road is just falling apart with a series of enormous holes.
Harpenden Road, at the turn off to the St.A Girls School - the road is just falling apart with a series of enormous holes.
Pretty much all of St. Albans…
I lived in Luton for a couple of er interesting years. What amazed me - other than being able to eat freshly cooked lamb skewers at 5am - is that the roads there are, relatively speaking, silky smooth.
A mate who works for St. Albans council says something about them routinely denying planning permission to developers unless they agree to resurface a few roads first. The developers bargain away at the number of roads they have to resurface until they get their planning permission. Apparently this is why it takes millennia for roads to be repaired in St. Albans.
I lived in Luton for a couple of er interesting years. What amazed me - other than being able to eat freshly cooked lamb skewers at 5am - is that the roads there are, relatively speaking, silky smooth.
A mate who works for St. Albans council says something about them routinely denying planning permission to developers unless they agree to resurface a few roads first. The developers bargain away at the number of roads they have to resurface until they get their planning permission. Apparently this is why it takes millennia for roads to be repaired in St. Albans.
Ginger goblin said:
I lived in Luton for a couple of er interesting years. What amazed me - other than being able to eat freshly cooked lamb skewers at 5am - is that the roads there are, relatively speaking, silky smooth.
Ah, another fan of Luton's many kebab houses.There's been a lot of frost heave on Luton's roads on the last couple of weeks, any minor fault now has a large hole there.
Will take a lot of putting right.
I guess that until the weather warms up, and repairs to the current holes would be pointless. Does worry me how much wheel damage and how many accidents (especially cyclists/bikers) will happen in the meantime. I've done the ROSPA advanced driving course, but find myself having to swerve all over the place to avoid potholes, and constantly looking at the road surface instead of looking around me for real hazards.
Great Hadham road between Bishops Stortford and Much Hadham. Once a great drivers road has been destroyed by a local golf course constructing, of all things, a new golf course where there already was a golf course. Countless convoys of earth moving trucks over the past year has destroyed the surface and left deep, tyre wide, channels that will trap your wheel should you stray off the tarmac (like when having to move aside for the oncoming earth moving truck). No doubt we will have to pick up the tab for the repairs but hey, as long as the golfers have a nicer course on which to waste a day!
. This may help:
http://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/hfr/locate.cfm?s...
For trunk roads:
http://www.highways.gov.uk/aboutus/2304.aspx
http://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/hfr/locate.cfm?s...
For trunk roads:
http://www.highways.gov.uk/aboutus/2304.aspx
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