Huge car swallowing pothole is NOT urgent
Huge car swallowing pothole is NOT urgent
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Peterpetrole

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766 posts

12 months

Friday 25th July
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There's a big pothole (repaired January, failed again) outside my house that wakes me up when the lorries start thumping over it at 5am.
I reported it (Essex Highways) with photos, reviewed within 6 hours overnight (??) and "no action required". It's a 60 with a lot of bikers as well so quite dangerous.

The frequent email responses from Essex Highways seemed to be suspiciously automated, so I submitted a picture of a slightly bigger hole to see if that would prompt any action:



They got straight onto it and gave me this response within 90 minutes:

"We have investigated, risk assessed and recorded this issue as requiring future non-urgent works. Thanks for helping us keep Essex roads in the best condition we can."



maccboy

713 posts

153 months

Friday 25th July
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Try the Love Clean Streets app. I've had results with that in other counties with potholes and other problems.

Sheepshanks

37,334 posts

134 months

Friday 25th July
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Get on to your local councillor- stress the sleep deprivation/ mental health (if you like) aspect. Maybe danger to cyclists.

Cold

16,039 posts

105 months

Friday 25th July
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That's not a pothole, that's a sinkhole.

spitfire-ian

3,983 posts

243 months

Friday 25th July
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Cold said:
That's not a pothole, that's a sinkhole.
I think that's the picture that the OP submitted hoping to get a response, not an actual picture of the pothole outside their house.

The council probably know this hence their reply.

Peterpetrole

Original Poster:

766 posts

12 months

Friday 25th July
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spitfire-ian said:
Cold said:
That's not a pothole, that's a sinkhole.
I think that's the picture that the OP submitted hoping to get a response, not an actual picture of the pothole outside their house.

The council probably know this hence their reply.
There is no way a human at Essex Highways has looked at my submission, either the original photo or the exaggerated one. They are all automated responses.

RizzoTheRat

26,961 posts

207 months

Friday 25th July
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Terminator X

17,834 posts

219 months

Friday 25th July
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Peterpetrole said:
There's a big pothole (repaired January, failed again) outside my house that wakes me up when the lorries start thumping over it at 5am.
I reported it (Essex Highways) with photos, reviewed within 6 hours overnight (??) and "no action required". It's a 60 with a lot of bikers as well so quite dangerous.

The frequent email responses from Essex Highways seemed to be suspiciously automated, so I submitted a picture of a slightly bigger hole to see if that would prompt any action:



They got straight onto it and gave me this response within 90 minutes:

"We have investigated, risk assessed and recorded this issue as requiring future non-urgent works. Thanks for helping us keep Essex roads in the best condition we can."
Perhaps the have embraced the wonder that is AI automated responses rofl it's ok though as it's saved them time and money.

TX.

MC Bodge

24,908 posts

190 months

Friday 25th July
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Peterpetrole said:
There's a big pothole (repaired January, failed again) outside my house that wakes me up when the lorries start thumping over it at 5am.
I reported it (Essex Highways) with photos, reviewed within 6 hours overnight (??) and "no action required". It's a 60 with a lot of bikers as well so quite dangerous.

The frequent email responses from Essex Highways seemed to be suspiciously automated, so I submitted a picture of a slightly bigger hole to see if that would prompt any action:



They got straight onto it and gave me this response within 90 minutes:

"We have investigated, risk assessed and recorded this issue as requiring future non-urgent works. Thanks for helping us keep Essex roads in the best condition we can."
You sent them a photo of a different (sink) hole?

Please post a photo of the real pothole.

Spare tyre

11,421 posts

145 months

Friday 25th July
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We had a ridiculous pot hole open up in the space of a day after some wet weather

It was shaking the glasses in our kitchen when certain vehicles hit it

Council came and marked it, because it wasn’t an a road they didn’t seem that bothered.

My neighbour reported that a bike had fallen off badly because of it, fixed the same day

MC Bodge

24,908 posts

190 months

Friday 25th July
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"Huge car swallowing pothole is NOT urgent"

It would be an interesting sight, though!

What sort of car is it?

AlexRS2782

8,335 posts

228 months

Saturday
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spitfire-ian said:
I think that's the picture that the OP submitted hoping to get a response, not an actual picture of the pothole outside their house.

The council probably know this hence their reply.
Based on some of OP's other threads / posts on here over the last 12 months expect this thread to probably be a massive exaggeration, posted to get some of the usual posters squabbling with each other, or in the case of the champagne one, the sort of thread you'd normally expect from one of the long term wind-up merchants on here under a throwaway account. Which given the amount of posts OP's made in a year it's possible they're a long term poster back under a new account, racking up the posts to get back into NPE.

His threat of a legal claim against the council over an old leisure contract - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
People in a convoy hogging the middle lane of a motorway - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Encounter with someone doing tagging - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
How to pour champagne - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...