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Title: bad road...
Post by: f13platform on 22 March 2008, 20:02:10
mean those big hole on the road everywhere lol

you cant always pass them without drive on them.

what s  a damage for car?
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 22 March 2008, 20:04:42
Maybe when they hike the road tax they'll spend some money on maintaining the roads. Ours really are a disgrace now.

Pigs fuelled and ready for take-off. ::)

Kevin
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: Jukeboxnut on 22 March 2008, 20:41:06
The local roads around here are a disgrace as well.

The local council have a pothole hotline so Iring them to report a specially bad road that I cycle along every day to work, telling them of the extra bad holes and they say all will be sorted (at least 8 in one area alone!).

A week later only one hole is filled in badly all the rest ignored so I am going to photo them all and keep copies.

If I come to grief on any of them all feking hell will break loose, useless bunch of a****holes in our coucil too busy increasing their allowances by 30% etc. to do any proper work!

Oh no I'm going off on one, nurse I need my medication right now.
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 22 March 2008, 21:18:58
But surely your council is like Swindon council........at the moment they are resurfacing roads everywhere........unfortunately they are doing roads that actually dont need doing and leaving ones that do  >:(

Its the same every year......Feb and March, they go mad resurfacing.......now they wouldnt be spending council tax money just to use it up, would they?  ::)
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: Big Fra on 23 March 2008, 00:32:19
When pulling out of a junction yester day swmbo's car bangs about from left to right so much I end up banging my head off of the top of the door.

Not fun.

I go off on a rant about the stiff suspension on her car and end up p**sing her off!

I apologise.

We go out today in my miggy, approach the same junction, I pull out of same junction, even my miggy bounces about from side to side.

We both were surprised as to how damaged the road is.

I know where you guys are coming frim.
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: shyboy on 24 March 2008, 00:07:07
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But surely your council is like Swindon council........at the moment they are resurfacing roads everywhere........unfortunately they are doing roads that actually dont need doing and leaving ones that do  >:(

Its the same every year......Feb and March, they go mad resurfacing.......now they wouldnt be spending council tax money just to use it up, would they?  ::)
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As I understand it, Councils have to give back funding allocated for specific purposes if they are not used by a deadline date, and the next funding would be reduced accordingly.
Southport sees it happen every year at this sort of time. Bloody crazy.
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: Albatross on 24 March 2008, 00:18:30
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But surely your council is like Swindon council........at the moment they are resurfacing roads everywhere........unfortunately they are doing roads that actually dont need doing and leaving ones that do  >:(

Its the same every year......Feb and March, they go mad resurfacing.......now they wouldnt be spending council tax money just to use it up, would they?  ::)
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As I understand it, Councils have to give back funding allocated for specific purposes if they are not used by a deadline date, and the next funding would be reduced accordingly.
Southport sees it happen every year at this sort of time. Bloody crazy.

I know this to be true. I work for a large company which supplies "X" (removed for fear of incrimination) to Local Authorities. I run a profit centre and sometimes have to take their money (especially over the last couple of months of each financial year) so that they have "spent it". I then hold it for them in my coffers for them to spend at their will with me over the coming years. Some of them are stock-piling very large sums of money.

It's a bloody fiddle, doesn't do me (my business) much good because we can't recognise the revenue until we actually deliver on it. All we get is the interest, which I suppose is not insignificant.
Title: Re: bad road...
Post by: Vamps on 25 March 2008, 00:29:34
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But surely your council is like Swindon council........at the moment they are resurfacing roads everywhere........unfortunately they are doing roads that actually dont need doing and leaving ones that do  >:(

Its the same every year......Feb and March, they go mad resurfacing.......now they wouldnt be spending council tax money just to use it up, would they?  ::)

If they do not spendit their budgets will be cut. :-/ :-/ :-/