Thank God for our Highways Departments!!!!!

[mad al]

Its so reassuring to know that our Highways bods are thinking of all us road users and keeping our roads in tip top condition.
It was such a pleasure to have witnessed two of their loyal employees carrying out a repair right outside our entrance today. They were obviously well trained and very professional in their approach to the task in hand.
Two potholes, full of rainwater which had to be removed be...............erm no!!!
Preparation before laying the tarm............erm no!!!!!
Cleared up after th............erm no!!!

There's a much quicker easier way than all that crap, you just drive about in a pick-up in the rain with a bit of tar and a couple of shovels in the back, you don't even need to switch the engine off!!!! You just pull up if you see any of the little buggas (potholes that is) and fling some tar in them slap it down with one of the said shovels and off you go to your next "job".

Here a couple done earlier on the A485 between Carmarthen and Lampeter. Just as well it's very busy, as this enables the job to be "finished" by the traffic driving over the top of the fresh soft tar.




This method of highway maintenance does however secure future employment in the area, as after the frost gets to the water left under the tar, they will be able to start again

[Dirty Dog]

Stunning quality of workmanship.....

[dctyper]

mmm my rx7 loves these bumps and holes.

[mad al]

I was just thinking of me on the push bike, these could be a kinda "speed hump"

[melloned]

lucky bugger ! , where i live , they just let e'm grow from baby one's like that , to the size of open cast mines !
They only repair them when some poor sod wrecks their suspension and claims against the council .
They must deem it cheaper to do it that way ??

[ruudvandan]

I work in highway maintenance and to be fair that looks like a temporary repair, not a permanent one. The good temp fill stuff can be used in wet conditions, whihc is exactly why it exists. The alternative is to wait until the ground dries out to do a permanent repair, which is likely to be after the winter, when the pot hole will no doubt be much bigger and will have caused a load of accidents.

[patkins]

are you sure its not a cowpat,judging from the splatter pattern?

[Barnsey]

lucky bugger ! , where i live , they just let e'm grow from baby one's like that , to the size of open cast mines !
They only repair them when some poor sod wrecks their suspension and claims against the council .
They must deem it cheaper to do it that way ??

Your not expecting some sort of forethought by local counccils are you?? Why act when you can react!