21 January (Part 1) - More than just a patch
The
current interest in potholes sent me scurrying up Colonel New’s Road to see the
pothole repair work scheduled for Monday to Thursday this week. A New Road
resident had already expressed surprise that the repairs were far more extensive
than pothole repairing alone suggested and he was happy about that.
I may be able to explain why the repairs go beyond a simple patching up job, assuming this year follows the pattern of 2024.
Twelve months ago the Highways Manager said
he had belatedly received £275,000 from the Conservative Government to be spent on potholes before the end of March with a promise of the same next year, 2025.
He did not regard it as very sensible but repairing long sections of road was the only way of ensuring the
money wasn’t lost. There was simply not enough time to plan the repair of umpteen individual potholes. Same again this year perhaps?
Nearly 30
buses an hour up and down what was once a quiet residential street have done
a great job of cracking the surface.
Here are some photos taken this morning and some from the aforementioned resident yesterday. There were more men at work than the photos show. I try to
exclude them after I inadvertently got a Crossrail worker sacked for not wearing a glove.
I am going to standardise on pothole without a space and damn the American spell checker. There were 80 occurrences of pothole on Bonkers and 35 potholes. The latter are all gone now. The word that is, not the suspension wrecking cycling hazard in a road near you.
