****** road resurfacing!!

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I'm sure most of you have seen the state of our roads, potholed and torn up, which make it really uncomfortable to drive on.


It seems the council's resolution to this is to spray bitumen on the roads and then throw down granite chippings. This is called surface dressing.


If any of you have ever driven over a freshly surfaced road you'll probably notice that the chippings bash against the underneath and sides of your car like a machine gun unless you drive at walking speed.


I have also found that if I drive at a slow enough speed to stop this chip onslaught, some moron overtakes and showers me in chippings.


Last time I cleaned my white car it took me ALL DAY to remove all the tar spots.


I don't think this substandard repair is what we pay for so I started an ePetition and if we get enough signatures then they have to debate it in Parliament.


If you feel the same, I ask you to sign and share.


Stop surface dressing roads - e-petitions


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some of the roads around Newcastle are ridiculous for potholes, but i was in Manchester the other week and there's a road being resurfaced there that is effing ridiculous. the "ramp" signs are there then you bang down a bit of tar like a kerb and then onto something that's akin to being offroad. there's "exposed ironworks" signs too meaning they dug around the in-road drain/access covers and left them sticking up about 4", ready to tear off any unwary driver's exhaust - being in a lowered Dynamik, i wasn't happy about this at all. whoever left the road in this state needs a good kicking then tying up and covered in tar to become part of the new surface >:-(
 
They did this in town on a crossroads in warm weather , a few days later it was all torn up .
 
Agreed, down here in Kent the roads are an absolute disgrace! the council is claiming to be "resurfacing" hundreds of miles of roads this year but this amounts to as Caesium describes, poring tar on them then throwing stone chippings on the tar!

Putting chippings on a crap bumpy worn out road surface is not "resurfacing", its just making a it a crap bumpy worn out surface covered in tar and chippings!! Grrrr then to top it off a year later a lot of the chippings have worn off and you end up with an even more bumpy crap worn out road surface!!!
I cycle a lot and cant believe how poor our roads have become. a lot of the pot holes have been marked with paint "for repair" but nothing has happened and the paint is so old its now worn away!
I will sign your petition!
 
As an insider on this one I can tell you why surface dressing is used. Quite simply it's money. The roads are shot to bits and getting worse and a proper surfacing job costs. If the road isn't too knackered surface dressing buys the local authority time and the lower cost means they can also attack far more roads than they would be able to do by doing it through laying tarmac. Ref the comment above, they are supposed to plane the old wearing coarse and fill in any holes before laying the dressing.

Unfortunately every government has pushed for cuts in public spending and now the roads and other things are dropping to bits as a result of being vastly underfunded.

Would you rather have 10 roads surfaced properly or 50 roads dressed?

It's inconvenient and I'm as frustrated by its use as much as anybody but unless the government invest in the road network and stop cutting the money available to do the jobs councils don't have a hope in Hell of rectifying things
 
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A4_MaJiK said:
Honestly? Does it not affect the paintwork? :uhm:

Have signed your petition by the way.
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yeh no affect to paintwork........trust me and give it a go.
It dissolves the tar effortlessly:icon_thumright:
 
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Plain old mineral paint thinner or turps as it is known. Cheap to buy, very effective, no harm to the paint... Easily powers through tar spots, cos guess what the base of tar and turps is.... :whistle2:

Fully agree with sentiments above, they are supposed to 'hoover' up the loose chippings afterward but still they fly... The road outside my house was done a couple of years back, major mess made of my property resulting in a mower with wrecked blades. A bit of haggling with the Roads Service to get it cleaned up but no 'sorry' we ruined your mower with our negligence of your property or offer to fix the mower.
 
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About 3 days after I took delivery of my new car the council did this to 5 major roads in my area and I got my first windscreen chip courtesy of a Citroen Picasso doing about 60 in the other direction. I've taken to avoiding these roads at all costs (whatever the diversion length) until it settles down. It's the 21st century for god sake, what's wrong with a but of black top Tarmac?
 
I had the council trash my car with petrol strimer did the whole front end in and windscreen! :( got a claim in n got resprayed by Audi though :)
 
Just signed it.. They've bombarded every road near me with this s**t!
 
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