Uncategorized RoadWhinge on 19 Jan 2007 11:21 am
Road Repairs… Seasonal?
I could be wrong, but late autumn and winter seem like stupid times to repair the roads - at least to the low standard of many of the repairs I see.
It seems that they come along and shove heaps of tarmac into the potholes then stomp it down flat. Maybe it’s more technical than that, but I don’t see it. Anyway, the way it’s usually done, you can bet that it’ll pour with rain the next day. The water seeps down under the fresh tarmac and the next day a hard frost freezes it, thus lifting and cracking the tarmac. It’s crap, and needs redoing withing weeks.
On the other hand, more rarely, I see repairs where a much smoother kind of tarmac is used, and these repairs seem to have neat edges that have been (apparently) melted into place. Water can clearly not get in underneath, and the whole job lasts a lot longer.
If they’re going to do it the cheap way, why do it in winter when the shortcomings of their shoddy job get exposed so soon? Madness.