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Fri 8 Apr 2005 23:56

Road Surfaces - Incompetence? - BobbyG

There are 2 roads I travel on regularly that I notice have had roadworks at the same spot. M8 around Bathgate and an Industrial Estate near me.

The M8 is on a bridge and as quick as they do a repair, a new pothole seems to appear. In the Ind estate, it is used by a large number of haulage companies.

Is this a case of incompetence with preparing the road surface or is it simply a case that in some instances, we cannot physically build a road to withstand the rigours of HGVs? In the Ind Estate in particular, all the damage seems to be around drainers, manhole covers etc.

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Sat 9 Apr 2005 00:55

Road Surfaces - Incompetence? - Civic8

>>we cannot physically build a road to withstand the rigours of HGVs?

Point I tried to make in another thread!
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Steve

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Sat 9 Apr 2005 01:36

Road Surfaces - Incompetence? - Chips with everything

It is incompetence.

A good friend of mine worked with the Tarmac gangs for a short while. The stories that he told about the quality of the work and how it could be done better with VERY little effort, well.....

They're paid to do a job, not do it well. He left and is now doing very nicely doing something completely different.

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Sat 9 Apr 2005 12:26

Road Surfaces - Incompetence? - Andrew-T

Some of you may know the Frodsham swing bridge on the old A56. A 15-inch circle of 'surface' has been patched or replaced in the same spot many times over the last 2 or 3 years - it just won't seem to stick to the sheet-steel decking, though the rest of the bridge seems to last OK. Why?

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