Isn't it time that the practice of laying loose chippings on wet tarmac was outlawed?
This crude method of using private vehicles as road rollers results in paint chips and broken screens, and the resultant surface is not very good anyway!
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Roger
I couldn't agree more - when was the last time anyone saw a road-roller (not steam!) on a road surface? The real p**s-taker is the signed speed limit - 10mph - "Problem sir - was he doing more than 10mph - well, we did warn youi!!"
Yeah, right!
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I couldn't agree more either. How the people get away with this for re surfacing roads is beyond me. It's also very wasteful since at least 50% of the chippings don't stick to the tarmac.
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And if you do go slow you get really sprayed by everything driven by other than the owner hurtling past!
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Great fun on a motorcycle as well, I don't think.
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Got an ugly gouge in the windscreen a month ago on just such a surface. Fortunately the damage was just under the size of a 5p piece, so Autoglass at Pembroke Dock were able to do an invisible mend next day. Dealt direct with the insurance too, saved me no end of hassle. Not so lucky were the drivers who suffered paint damage, I'll bet.
I agree that the practice ought to be outlawed. It is bad enough in a car, but on a bike it can be lethal if one is forced off the car tracks and onto the loose surface which takes ages to bed in even on busy roads. One trip up and down with a roller is all it takes to solve the problem.
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Lots of trouble in London where they are having a session of putting non-skid surfaces before crossings and junctions.
Trouble is, they don't remove the loose chippings which gravitate to the side of the rod and the sides become "instant skid" on a motorbike when trying to squeeze through.
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Brian,
You are very right about the "Shell Grip" left overs at newly surfaced lights and junctions. The cars tend to push them to the parts of the road that you use as a motorcyclist. I now complain about them to the local authority and have in the past sent emails to the head of the roads section in one case. When you point out their liabilities and the fact that you have sent the email and you will act as a witness for anyone you hear of who has an accident they get swept up quite quick.
I complained to the highways agency about a big blob of tar on the M627 just on a motorcycles line of cornering and it was gone in a couple of days, to remove it they had to have shut off one lane. Complain, it works done right.
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Do you live in Holywood Co. Down perchance??
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Completely agree. This type of resurfacing is a nightmare; not only is it harmful to the car and dangerous to the motorcyclist it plainly doesn't work. As mentioned above - it barely sticks to the road (tar sticks better to your vehicle), it's ugly and it simply doesn't work. In Market Harborough (Leic's) they covered the roads into the town in this surface - completely covering the red-marked cycle lanes!! But what really took the biscuit was the fact that the lines were only repainted once traffic had removed the chippings and thus revealed where the cycle lanes were! The dust (these are very busy roads as, not only is the town quite large - businesses and commuter wise - it is also a through route between Leicester and Northampton) was something else - coating cars, windows and a delight for Asthma sufferers.
As a cyclist the chippings are also a very real danger. I've had chippings crack the lenses in cycling glasses and, virtually, shred my shin. Surely it's only a matter of time before someone takes a council to court over this type of surface... a return to the dirt tracks in medieval times would be preferably - at least those 4x4 monstrosities would have a purpose then!
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