Potholes Galaore

[Sam Vimes]

Not whiskey but potholes.

Most people on Skye would agree that our roads are worse than some third world places. Get off of Skye and things get better.

In the last 6 or 7 years I've had 3 rear coil springs brake. Two on my previous car and now one on the current one.

We go home from Stirling last week (not towing) and just turned into the driveway when there was an enormous 'Dong' which resonated around the car. Its booked into the local garage on Thursday.

I took the rear wheels off this morning so that I could give the garage more details about the problem and yes, the offside coil spring is fractured at the bottom.

Some of the potholes are so bad that if you listen closely to them you can hear 'Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Hi Ho' etc and the sound of tiny pickaxes.
I've got to know the worst spots and avoid most of them but more appear in the bad weather and in the dark and rain its not always easy to avoid them, especially when there's a vehicle coming the other way.

Its possible to claim from the Highland Council but proving the damage was done by the bad roads isn't easy.

 

[Martin_E]

Down the road from me yesterday I heard a siren heading towards Minehead , thought nothing more of it until a few minutes later I was sat in a string of traffic, the police putting on high viz jackets (it was almost light) went past them and there was 9 cars parked/stopped in various positions, a few in a big road that go into a farm, a few stopped on the side of the road we had to weave past4 stopped in a small turnoff lane and three in a lay-by I know the day before they had been doing road works in that spot. Anyway on my way back several hours later there was one of the cars in the lay-by still, front jacked up with a wheel off, another vehicle in the head of the small lane with two punctures on the off side, two others in the lane for the large farm track, both with two punctures each. The cause a big pothole, one assumes the road repairers hadn’t got all the work done. I did stop and talk to the workmen/workpeople or whatever the PC thing is these days to tell them there was a static van on its way with three escort vehicles. I have no idea if the workpeople pulled up stumps the let this load through or not.
All I know is if I had left a few minutes earlier it could have been me with flat tyres 😱

 

[Beardy]

Not whiskey but potholes.

Most people on Skye would agree that our roads are worse than some third world places. Get off of Skye and things get better.

Do you report them?
In England and Wales it can be done very quickly on line, it looks like Scotland have a similar system.
I found that when I started reporting pot holes they were repaired within the week in most cases. On one occasion I reported a string of pot holes and warning signs were put up within a week but they were not repaired. A while later the road was closed for resurfacing .......... for three months!!!

Report a pothole

Report potholes on A roads, motorways and local roads to the council

www.gov.uk