Now the snow and ice are thawing off round here, I've noticed the reserection of all of last years potholes. All the cheap patches have lifted up, and now the roads are like an artilerly strike has hit them. Maybe those people who bought a 4x4 by the snow will get more benefit out of them than they expected. Times like this having hard suspension is somewhat of a pain.

What's it like where other people are? Can't see it getting much better here with a 14% cut (I think) to the councils budget. On the bright side, at least the £200odd I spent on road tax will be well used. . . or not. -_-

I just come back from Aberystwyth back to Swansea (Gorseinon) after visiting family. Some parts are fine and perfectly smooth but other parts are awful. The road seems to be wearing away. It feels like a gravel track in parts. Some white lines have worn away too. Local roads have failred little better. The ones that have been properly resurfaced and not patched are fine.

The very busy London to Birkenhead A41 section 'round here is like a relief map of the Himalaya YET again.

Absolutely appauling condition and yes, all of last years 'other local bodges' are disintegrating again. Many from last year still haven't been 'repaired' and consequently they are akin to craters now.

Stoke..land of the Potteries has become land of the Potholes!

Yup bad already. And winter has just started.

Bad here as well in edinburgh, after our first spell of snow the roads people came and filled in a pot hole at the end of my street, a week later it's back to being a bigger pothole.

Davy

North Wales have got an absolutely fantastic pot hole fixing machine.

It's like a big Hoover that sucks all the debris and loose bits out, then it absolutely blasts the hole full of tarmac and stones over and around the ex hole.

I watched them doing some last January, and those same ex potholes are still filled.

Marvelous machine, and every council needs one....urgently.

Pot holes are dreadful around here. I fear they won't be fixed as some parts of the main road were still bad from last year!

Rotherham/Sheffield are terrible i've nearly left the front axle behind 3 times in the past week, 1 of them made my fathers teeth clatter and that was in the Frontera!

Derby on the other hand, you may hit a slight divet/ripple every 30mins or so.

North Wales have got an absolutely fantastic pot hole fixing machine.

It's like a big Hoover that sucks all the debris and loose bits out, then it absolutely blasts the hole full of tarmac and stones over and around the ex hole.

I watched them doing some last January, and those same ex potholes are still filled.

Marvelous machine, and every council needs one....urgently.

It'll be one of these I expect:

It's called a JetPatcher. They're effective, but as you'd expect, expensive . . .

There is a big one on the M6 between junction 9 and 8.......hitting it at 50mph made my teeth shudder.....

Very dangerous

Don't talk to me about potholes, i hit a monster one the other day and i now have a slight wobble at 75 and the handling has gone to pot - all on my three month old Superb :wonder:

Don't talk to me about potholes, i hit a monster one the other day and i now have a slight wobble at 75 and the handling has gone to pot - all on my three month old Superb :wonder:

You sue the council then.

They've got to learn that leaving the roads in a dangerous state is just NOT cost effective.

It'll be one of these I expect:

It's called a JetPatcher. They're effective, but as you'd expect, expensive . . .

That's the honey!

Expensive, yes, no doubt probably, but carrying on from my last post, just how long before it's actually paid for itself as against the ongoing costs of angry motorists suing them for tyre, wheel and suspension damage, not to mention the high accident risk of motorists swerving to avoid them?