Why oh why don't the local councils insist on these electric /gas/ telecommunications/ water/uncle Tom cobbly contractors going back and re-repairing the sunken ditches they've littered our highways with?

Still, it's one surefire way of preventing us all from speeding I suppose.

The roads around me are extremly bad with these. There are always some kind of utility contractors digging the roads up:rotz:.

I end up swerving all over the road to avoid the ditches. I'm supprised I haven't been pulled up for suspected drink driving:rofl:

Complain to the council, they will often force the company to rectify.

Complain to the council, they will often force the company to rectify.

It would take me a month to compile a list of all the roads around here that have got these craters and gorges in them. :(

It only really works if the road has recently been dug by someone. Historic poor covering of trenches will likely be dismissed.

The problem with the roads around me, there has been so many different utility contactors digging the roads up, the council wouldn't have a clue who did what hole.

The utility company has to rectify any problems for 3 years, after that it goes to the council. The way the permits are issued for works the council should know who was in there when and where they dug.

The utility company has to rectify any problems for 3 years, after that it goes to the council. The way the permits are issued for works the council should know who was in there when and where they dug.

I feel a campaign/mission coming on.

Some of the 'reinstatements' are absolutely appaulling around here, dunno about you lot. :rotz:

As if the ruddy potholes haven't got us busy enough concentrating, trying to preserve our suspension and tyres.

We currently have gas contractors causing bedlum in our village for 2 months, just 18 months since the water lads dug up the same stretch of road creating mayhem for weeks on end.

I do appreciate thees works have to be done, but a bit of co-ordination wouldn't go amiss.

Its funny we now have coordination between gas and water in cumbria, the result being they happen hald as often but for twice as long when they do, still less holes dug so an improvment on that side.