Road Reinstatement to be Guaranteed for 5 Years?

[st13phil]

Firms that dig up the roads would have to guarantee they remained pothole-free for five years, under new Department for Transport (DfT) proposals.

Good idea or a diversionary smokescreen?

Certainly my experience of Oxfordshire & Bucks roads is that many potholes propagate from the edge of reinstatement works after utility companies have dug up the road, but easily as many - if not more - are as a result of roads being plain worn out, or the failure of sub-standard repairs to the original pothole.

 

[Deletedmember130310]

good intentions but I doubt the local authorities have the resource to enforce the bureaucracy.

I've never understood why utilities aren't run alongside the road rather than under the road

 

[Nat]

Too little and too late. This is something that should of been in place years ago.

I can see this as an excuse for the utilities companies for price increases, even if they didn't abide by it while enforcing it would be the dog chasing its tail scenario.

 

[c63chris]

Firms that dig up the roads would have to guarantee they remained pothole-free for five years, under new Department for Transport (DfT) proposals.

Good idea or a diversionary smokescreen?

Certainly my experience of Oxfordshire & Bucks roads is that many potholes propagate from the edge of reinstatement works after utility companies have dug up the road, but easily as many - if not more - are as a result of roads being plain worn out, or the failure of sub-standard repairs to the original pothole.

It misss out local authority work which is the bulk of that done. Most Highway Authorities of outsourced inspections and use charges as a revenue stream as it is.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

good intentions but I doubt the local authorities have the resource to enforce the bureaucracy.

I've never understood why utilities aren't run alongside the road rather than under the road

I suppose that, much like the chicken, they have to cross the road now and again for various reasons.

 

[Piff]

I wonder if they will apply the same conditions on their own repairs?
Near here is a section of road where the council repaired several pot holes less than a year ago. They only did the big ones, leaving the small ones to get worse. Now the small ones are worse and some of those they previously repaired have developed "new" pot holes on the edges of them.

 

[Istbclass]

It amazes me that in this day and age we cannot come up with something that repairs potholes properly, rather than patching them so they fail with the first drop of rain or frost.