Where are the maintenance crews?

[Mad Maximus]

Maybe I’m missing a some info but where are the road repair teams?

Again maybe I’m missing something but don’t the councils pay contractors to maintain and repair even if it’s no where near enough? I haven’t seen any repairs or maintenance folk for a very long time where are they hiding!

[irc]

In Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.




One of our local A roads getting a proper resurfacing. Last week it was another section of road near me getting done. They seem to have a rolling programme
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Last time I reported a collapsed drain it was repaired within a day. Sometimes repairs are done the same say they are reported.

Unlike Stirling Council whose answer to the shocking condition of Stockiemuur Road is to erect signs saying "rough surface for 2 miles"

[Riley Blue]

AFAIK the winter water/frost cycle tends to bugger up newly patched roads, at least that's what local Facebook pages would have you believe.

[coppice]

Plenty round here (North Yorkshire) . This means the tone of local facebook pages goes from-

"It's disgusting, I pay my council tax , but the road to work is in an awful state , why haven't they repaired it ? I'm going to vote for Reform next time "

to- " Bloody Council doing roadworks , traffic lights are adding ten minutes to my commute . Why don't they do it in the school holidays /why are they doing it in the school holidays? Nigel's getting my vote next time"

All deeply tiresome .

[mmm-five]

Our's tend to start something, disappear once the job is half done (e.g. either taking up the road and not relaying it, or doing one side of the road and not the other)...and then we get told they 'chose' to go bust rather than complete the work due to the rising cost of materials.

You can tell there's local elections coming up, as despite zero effort to fix any potholes over the last 4 years or so, roadworks have suddenly popped up seemingly covering about 50% of the roads in the borough (not that we've seen any actual 'work' going on).

[LRDefender]

I see them a lot around Surrey, especially at night.

Fair play to the hard grafting folk out repairing our roads in the dead of night in this cold, miserable weather.



On our local facebook group it appears the hard of thinking like to spout that nothing gets ever done around here whilst very rarely venturing outside of their chosen favela.

[Pica-Pica]

Around here (North Wales), they tend to do a whole side of a road, before the summer visitors. They do a proper job, and before it gets too bad. Makes keeping runflats acceptable.