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Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 6:29 pm
by exportman
There is a new petition on the gov website to increase road repair funding. Please sign.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634995
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 6:35 pm
by Skub
Around our way,they need to repair the repairs. There appears to be no quality control,just whang stuff into the hole and make it a hump instead.
Signed,but I'm not holding my breath or anything.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 7:35 pm
by The Spin Doctor
Skub wrote: Tue May 23, 2023 6:35 pm
Around our way,they need to repair the repairs. There appears to be no quality control,just whang stuff into the hole and make it a hump instead.
Signed,but I'm not holding my breath or anything.
Ha. We're onto repairing the repairs to the repairs.
My favourite was a new speed hump that straddled a pot hole. They filled the bit of the pothole that had to be filled in to support the hump. The rest of the pothole remained unfilled.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 10:54 pm
by Felix
My street the re surfaced a triangle outside six rented lockups. On the road next to triangle is pot holes what wanted filled long ago. They also re surfaced a dead end street what no one uses and less living in that street. Rest of town still waiting on holes getting filled. Usual use last years budget up on shite
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 10:51 am
by iansoady
We've had a government for 13 years that has prioritised fantasies and "austerity" over actually supporting our infrastructure and publice services. So despite taxation being as high or higher than ever* everything is collapsing. So there is absolutely zero chance of this petition achieving anything.
*Well, at least for those of us in the 90%. If you're rich enough you don't bother paying.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 11:04 am
by Skub
Felix wrote: Tue May 23, 2023 10:54 pm
My street the re surfaced a triangle outside six rented lockups. On the road next to triangle is pot holes what wanted filled long ago. They also re surfaced a dead end street what no one uses and less living in that street. Rest of town still waiting on holes getting filled. Usual use last years budget up on shite
There's a road local to me that was 2/3 decent surface and the rest atrocious. Of course they resurfaced the decent part and left the shitty 1/3.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 2:15 pm
by crust
iansoady wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 10:51 am
We've had a government for 13 years that has prioritised fantasies and "austerity" over actually supporting our infrastructure and publice services. So despite taxation being as high or higher than ever* everything is collapsing. So there is absolutely zero chance of this petition achieving anything.
*Well, at least for those of us in the 90%. If you're rich enough you don't bother paying.
Depends if you live on the right road.
My commute from one side of Reading to the other is the usual bouncing from one pot hole to another, a lot of them last years repairs.
Get to the village where Theresa May lives and a 'meh, not bad' road, which she lives on has just been resurfaced properly, purely a coincidence I'm sure.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 2:20 pm
by DefTrap
In the UK last month I was shocked how much the roads had deteriorated (more potholes in more dangerous places) and also increased delays on motorways (mainly lane closures with feck all happening) than was noticeable 12 months earlier.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 2:33 pm
by Mussels
Meh, I'm just going to buy a car that can cope with potholes better. An added requirement will be going over speed bumps and round multi-storey car parks without scraping the bottom, the council are never going to fix them either.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 12:04 am
by The Spin Doctor
DefTrap wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 2:20 pm
In the UK last month I was shocked how much the roads had deteriorated (more potholes in more dangerous places) and also increased delays on motorways (mainly lane closures with feck all happening) than was noticeable 12 months earlier.
The motorway lane closures could be the stalled 'smart motorway' conversions which have now been cancelled, with some needing to be reversed.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 5:41 pm
by Dodgy69
Country in meltdown.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 6:17 pm
by Couchy
We’ve had the same govt for 13 years, voted in many times by the majority. Just where is the money going to come from as if taxes are raised people get upset as they want more ££ in their individual pockets and bollox to any govt that wants to increase taxes for the benefit of all.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:06 pm
by Ant
Trouble is, a lot of these local councils claim to be cash strapped, but many are paying their chief 500k a year. How can a council chief's pay be more than the Prime Minister?
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:06 pm
by The Spin Doctor
Fact check...
Not 'many'... three!
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/town_ ... _last_year
I found 148 with a total package of over £200,000 out of 2754 council employees listed with incomes of more than £100k.
For comparison, Chief Constables are on anything from £150k to £200k.
Re: Petition to repair the roads
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:05 pm
by Hot_Air
I should have worked for the Council
Many of the annual salaries for the CEOs of Councils appear similar to Chief Constables.
The larger payouts include redundancy pay or golden parachutes for CEOs who lost their jobs.
