In the current obsession with the C-virus, we mustn't lose sight of the usual end-of-budget-year council work routine ?
Ah yes!
I forgot the bit about end of financial year.
If they don't use it it's lost and/or they are penalised next year with less money!
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We play spot the good piece of road in my part of Kent. Disgusting condition and potholes abound. Visited friends and family in North Yorkshire before the recent restrictions and the difference in road surfaces and condition is startling. Kent is almost 3rd world compared to North Yorkshire. I wish there was a joined up policy that dictated the level of spending on roads which is based on the best case county council. It seems so sad that it is probably an arbitrary percentage of their budget instead of an statutory one.
Cheers Concrete
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Visited friends and family in North Yorkshire before the recent restrictions and the difference in road surfaces and condition is startling.
If you visited the part of N Yorkshire around Harrogate, many of the roads there were resurfaced specially for the 'Tour de France' several years ago. We happened through the area just before the race, and the roads were amazing, as well as the dozens of old yellow-painted bikes littering the roadsides.
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Visited friends and family in North Yorkshire before the recent restrictions and the difference in road surfaces and condition is startling.
If you visited the part of N Yorkshire around Harrogate, many of the roads there were resurfaced specially for the 'Tour de France' several years ago. We happened through the area just before the race, and the roads were amazing, as well as the dozens of old yellow-painted bikes littering the roadsides.
Some roads here in West Yorkshire were also resurfaced for the Tour de France, they aren't too bad but every other road is full of potholes, badly re-instated gas main excavations and cracked surfaces that should have been re-done properly 10 years ago.
Much of the roads budget has gone on extra pedestrian crossing lights, cycle lanes, bus lanes, pedestrianising the town centres and laying multicoloured pavements alongside the potholed roads.
These are supposed to beautify the town centre (but there isn't enough car parking space and what there is is expensive. Council agenda is to favour buses, cyclists and pedestrians, wrecking cars with potholes is part of the plan.
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Council agenda is to favour buses, cyclists and pedestrians, wrecking cars with potholes is part of the plan.
That's can't be true at all - councils never have a plan! LOL
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Council agenda is to favour buses, cyclists and pedestrians, wrecking cars with potholes is part of the plan.
That's can't be true at all - councils never have a plan! LOL
I work for a council directly and not a sub contractor and I can honestly say they haven't a plan for anything they blindly make decisions like the one to pay someone £3.75M to show them how to save £11M
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I work for a council directly and not a sub contractor and I can honestly say they haven't a plan for anything they blindly make decisions like the one to pay someone £3.75M to show them how to save £11M
Heh, the gritters were out around here (South Cheshire) yesterday. Why, I don't know, because it didn't go below 3 celsius, there's been no rain for 2 weeks, there's a strong breeze and humidity is about 70%, so no chance of frost or ice either.
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Heh, the gritters were out around here (South Cheshire) yesterday. Why, I don't know, because it didn't go below 3 celsius, there's been no rain for 2 weeks, there's a strong breeze and humidity is about 70%, so no chance of frost or ice either.
I don't know for certain that breeze won't stop it but a forecast 3 degrees (air temperature) is certainly cold enough for ice to form in frost pockets - which may be low lying and sheltered.
That's why cars warn of frost risk from around 4 Celsius.
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Dreading the next rain, all that salt pointlessly spread over the last week will make everything filthy again, they do this every year just before April, one can only surmise at the usual reasons.
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Heh, the gritters were out around here (South Cheshire) yesterday. Why, I don't know, because it didn't go below 3 celsius, there's been no rain for 2 weeks, there's a strong breeze and humidity is about 70%, so no chance of frost or ice either.
I don't know for certain that breeze won't stop it but a forecast 3 degrees (air temperature) is certainly cold enough for ice to form in frost pockets - which may be low lying and sheltered.
That's why cars warn of frost risk from around 4 Celsius.
The lack of vehicles on the road may actually make the situation worse, because normally any (non-black) ice will be removed by vehicles driving over it in large enough numbers.
The recent cloudless skies and sunny weather have also meant that the nights have been very cool in comparison to the daytime temperature.
Everyone should be wary of driving at night at present, and only do so if absolutely necessary, and not like a near neighbour of mine who appear to like popping out in his cars several times to the only take-away left open and likely visit one of his girlfriends [he isn't young either, well into his 50s!].
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Visited friends and family in North Yorkshire before the recent restrictions and the difference in road surfaces and condition is startling.
If you visited the part of N Yorkshire around Harrogate, many of the roads there were resurfaced specially for the 'Tour de France' several years ago. We happened through the area just before the race, and the roads were amazing, as well as the dozens of old yellow-painted bikes littering the roadsides.
A bit further North and East. Helmesly, Northallerton and parts of Teesside. Roads are very good, although Middlesbrough Council have a real love of road humps and 20mph zones. A lot of which seem superfluous. Just the usual sledgehammer and nut approach.
Cheers Concrete
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Visited friends and family in North Yorkshire before the recent restrictions and the difference in road surfaces and condition is startling.
If you visited the part of N Yorkshire around Harrogate, many of the roads there were resurfaced specially for the 'Tour de France' several years ago. We happened through the area just before the race, and the roads were amazing, as well as the dozens of old yellow-painted bikes littering the roadsides.
A bit further North and East. Helmesly, Northallerton and parts of Teesside. Roads are very good, although Middlesbrough Council have a real love of road humps and 20mph zones. A lot of which seem superfluous. Just the usual sledgehammer and nut approach.
Cheers Concrete
Ironic that it satisfies all the road safety lobby groups, but the greenies don't like them now that they realise they cause more pollution because vehicles travel in lower gears, and accelerating/braking and thus using more fuel.
Like with using seat belts, making sure people drive safely is far more about 'appropriate speed' for the locale and conditions that just slow, as is helping the environment. It's about changing attitudes by persuasion and irrefutable facts, and not hectoring.
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Twas ever thus Andy. Driving across speed humps I usually go quite slowly for obvious reasons. It amazes me the number of numpties that brake hard at the hump, then cross it and accelerate towards the next one to repeat the exercise. I always seem to be caught by one these idiots who then tailgate me. Heaven only knows what they are thinking, or not really.
I wore seat belt long before they were compulsory and just got into the habit. That was because I was once courting a very nice young lady who happened to be a nurse. She worked in Casualty, as it was then known. She always put the seatbelt on whenever I picked her up. Her reason was the effect of a road accident where the occupants were thrown about inside or even out of the vehicle in the event of a collision. She witnessed the actual damage and injuries first hand, and subsequently always wore a seat belt. I simply followed suit. Clever girl as it turned out.
Cheers Concrete
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