Whatever has happened to our roads? I am not referring here to the amount of traffic on them, though I certainly could have a bit of a moan about that, no I am talking about holes here. This morning I dropped teen son at his friends’ so they could walk together in a social matey kind of way. This particular road is long and also subject to many road calming humps (but that is yet another road story) and now it also contains many (and I mean many) large pot holes. Onto the main road and again all of a sudden numerous holes seem to have appeared. On one roundabout I have to go round most mornings there are now so many holes it is a wonder I don’t actually sink down one of them. Our roads are fixed by the county council to whom we pay more than enough council tax, but while driving slowly along the roads (due to traffic congestion and hole avoidance) it is easy to see that most of what has been done recently around our area is hole filling and none of that has been done well. I am obviously no expert on the materials and workmanship of road maintenance but even to my untutored eye it is obvious that something is not right.

Just when I thought I was turning into a TOG (due to my morning listening habits) I discovered there is a bit of a campaign going on in the local paper. Apparently the roads I use in our local town and on my journey to work are not the only ones to be suffering from poor repair. A local Mechanic is worried about the damage being caused to people’s cars by the poor state of the roads locally compounded by the growing tendency of traffic calming road humps to appear in the night. If this had been a cold winter then no doubt the highways agency would be blaming the snow and ice, but we haven’t seen much of that so I expect that it is all down to global warming and rain. Because everything these days is due to the planet, our over reliance on gas guzzling cars and of course our obesity.

For your information though my body is currently shrinking and my car is small and economical. Therefore I blame the materials currently being used to build and replace road surfaces plus the lack of investment.

End of Rant.

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