Whilst out and about I've noticed that despite the relatively mild weather down South, that quite a few of the heavily used B roads on the fringes of North-West London suburbs have got damage to them. In one case, on a flat section of road running between water courses (Between Denham Green and South Harefield) , there was substantial heave and slump at several places in one carriageway. Didn't look like it had been marked, so I reported it.

 

Generally, within the suburbs, road surfaces seem quite good. Councils, down here, seems to have done quite a lot of repair work last year.

 

Any horrors still about ?

 

Nick

Edited 25 March, 201511 yr by Clunkclick

Some lovely road repairs and resurfacing done in Scotland already this year,

just in time for tonights, Snow & ice.

So any that just got a temp repair will be opened up by next week as the torrential rain arrives.

 

Keeps people in work, road workers, and Mechanics / Tyre Fitters.

 

http://trafficscotland.org

Hot spreaders have been out in this area!!

We've just had a local road fully patched up, using that method that was on dragons den or something ages ago. Cuts all the holes into square patches then just drops a block of Tarmac in hot.

Hopefully not as bad as this one.

 

http://www.aol.co.uk/video/brazilian-bus-falls-through-hole/518727100/?ncid=webmail14

 

Regards Chris

Pretty bad at the mo.

 

Most of the hole I reported last year have opened up again. They're resurfacing roads but oddly not the bad bits, so I guess they are just scheduled resurfacing.

I did notice that Harrow's maintenance contractors were doing work in my road last week.

 

Quite honestly, I questioned in my own mind whether the work needed doing - basically a bit of minor surface dishing/erosion on both sides of some road humps - caused by all those numpties with lowered suspension ?

 

Then I realised, of course it needed doing, there's a Sainsbury's store 200 yards at the other end of the road and we can't have the "Rights of passage" of the beloved customers impeded.

 

 

Nick

 

 

I came across a distressing sight the other day. A whole section of the A421 North Orbital Road, in between Maple Cross and Denham Green, where the verges, lay-bys, shrubs and trees were absolutely covered and festooned with plastic waste - cups, bags, sheets of polythene. Looked -like an explosion at plastics factory or a travellers/rough sleepers camp. There was a fair likely hood that if the wind got up, this stuff would be blown across the carriageway and cause a traffic hazard.

 

Problem came when I tried to report it on line. Who actually was responsible for this bit of road. It was basically at the junction of the boundaries of several road authorities - London Borough of Hillingdon, Buckinghamshire County Council and the Greater London Authority/Transport for London. Hillingdon came back to say it wasn't their responsibility, so I've now posted Bucks. Just as a point of general info, is there a definitive on-line database where you can check who is responsible for what ?

 

Nick

 

 

Nick,

 

The A421 is a trunk road isn't it.  That would make it the responsibility of the Highways Agency.

 

Rob.