Minor roads in Daventry area.

[ronnyd]

Just got back from visiting my eldest and must say the roads around his area are bloody awful. Narrow, bumpy, potholes and the potholes that have been repaired are so shoddily done that all the repairs have disintegrated. They don't need any 20mph limits around there because you dare not go any faster.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Sounds very much like rural North Essex. The roads are shite.

[Doctor Gollum]

Sounds very much like most everywhere. The roads are shite.

The roads in the US are just as horrendous.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Sounds very much like most everywhere. The roads are shite.

The roads in the US are just as have always been horrendous.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

The roads I drove on around New England and New York state (albeit over 20 years ago) were almost always in superb condition.

[TheBoy]

Just got back from visiting my eldest and must say the roads around his area are bloody awful. Narrow, bumpy, potholes and the potholes that have been repaired are so shoddily done that all the repairs have disintegrated. They don't need any 20mph limits around there because you dare not go any faster.

Wait til you cross the border into Oxfordshire.....

I hadn't actually noticed the lanes around Daventry were any better or worse than any other road TBH...

[ronnyd]

Just got back from visiting my eldest and must say the roads around his area are bloody awful. Narrow, bumpy, potholes and the potholes that have been repaired are so shoddily done that all the repairs have disintegrated. They don't need any 20mph limits around there because you dare not go any faster.

Wait til you cross the border into Oxfordshire.....

I hadn't actually noticed the lanes around Daventry were any better or worse than any other road TBH...

Perhaps after spending nearly three hours on the A14, (including over an hour in a queue after a shunt around Newmarket) the minor roads would feel rough. It's just that they seem worse than around my neck of the woods and they ain't great. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

The roads I drove on around New England and New York state (albeit over 20 years ago) were almost always in superb condition.

To be fair, my experience of US roads is mostly in and around Houston which is built on drained marshland and the roads are basically huge concrete slabs which have moved and heaved over time so it's a bit like driving on a rollercoaster! 

[Doctor Gollum]

The roads I drove on around New England and New York state (albeit over 20 years ago) were almost always in superb condition.

Granted, we don't really spend much time on them, and the American idea of a bus or coach is a converted truck chassis  but as an example, an expansion joint on the I40 yesterday threatened to rip the back axle off our lwb Transit as we smashed over it

[VXL V6]

Sounds very much like most everywhere. The roads are shite.

The roads in the US are just as horrendous.

Yep, always have been rough, but the suspension setup on American vehicles covers up a lot of the horrendous roads..... right up until you leave the interstate at anything approaching the speed limit and get a quick reminder how soft the springs are 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Sounds very much like most everywhere. The roads are shite.

The roads in the US are just as horrendous.

Yep, always have been rough, but the suspension setup on American vehicles covers up a lot of the horrendous roads..... right up until you leave the interstate at anything approaching the speed limit and get a quick reminder how soft the springs are 

I thought most American ve-hic-les had leaf springs? 

[Rangie]

Drove to Peterborough today the A16 hasn't got potholes they're craters !  Most drivers straddle them the unfortunate ones who don't know this stretch of road, end up losing a wheel , the odd bit that gets repaired doesn't last more than a few days, we must have the worst roads in Europe now.

[STEMO]

It's not just roads, it's a lot more. Our council has decided that, this year, it's not going to do any work on the trees that line some streets(like ours). There are low hanging branches banging off not just trucks, but vans and SUV's, they are so low. The suckers at the bottom of the trees are blocking the pavements. The grass on the verges is like a jungle.
And, of course, we have more than our fair share of pot holes. Everywhere just looks unkempt and run down.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Yes the council haven't bothered to weedkill along our road this year either.

There is a Buddleia sapling that has sprung up out of a joint in the kerbs outside my house, and I haven't made my mind up yet whether to pull it out or wait to see how big it gets before the council get round to tidying up the place. 

[Rangie]

The whole of the UK is in a scruffy dirty mess , we have a team of volunteers in Spalding who try to do their best at making the area look decent , they've even put bins ( at their own expense) in areas where people just drop litter with no thought, mattresses being dumped at the roadside is not an uncommon sight, what goes through these morons minds ?