Why you might need a 4x4...

[laser_jock@work]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4839578.stm

There's one or two grim potholes around Warks. I dropped into one hole at the side of a lane recently and it jolted the transfer box into neutral- I've never even managed that offroading!

[surfcarl]

you wanna see/feel the roads in the rhondda valleys where i live......
........ SHAKIN STEVENS used to be called STEADY STEVENS..... before he started giggin around here......

carl........

[kitesurf_phil]

Anybody remember the episode of the Goodies, where all the roads were grown over and people were commuting to work on ride-on mowers?

[Diezel Weazel]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4839578.stm

There's one or two grim potholes around Warks. I dropped into one hole at the side of a lane recently and it jolted the transfer box into neutral- I've never even managed that offroading!

You know the reason for that eh !!!!
There's too much Tarmac in them there ROAD HUMPS

There's always a Payback ..... You just can't see it Comin !!!!

[BUSHWHACKER]

It seems the only roads that get re-surfaced in south Wales, are the ones that DON'T need re-surfacing! Less materials to be used, = more money in the back pockets for the councillors, = "targets" met.

[POPEYE]

Its quite bad round here Havant borough council being the poor relation of
Portmouth city council, We always get the $hit end of the stick, So called traffic calming measures (speed humps) are far too high, there all gouged where cars have "bottomed out " on em, They did the steering rack in on my serria, Add to em lots of pot holes and badly backfilled trenches and i might
as well be off road, Bl00dy council! They can waste millions of council tax
money on things like the spinnaker tower which was'nt suppose to have the
council tax payer anything when it was plan'd, But they cant repair the roads,
The ever present graft and back handers i guess, Hangings too good for the likes o them, It's a good kick up the ar$e they need,,,,,

[bobo]

Its quite bad round here Havant borough council being the poor relation of
Portmouth city council, We always get the $hit end of the stick, So called traffic calming measures (speed humps) are far too high, there all gouged where cars have "bottomed out " on em, They did the steering rack in on my serria, Add to em lots of pot holes and badly backfilled trenches and i might
as well be off road, Bl00dy council! They can waste millions of council tax
money on things like the spinnaker tower which was'nt suppose to have the
council tax payer anything when it was plan'd, But they cant repair the roads,
The ever present graft and back handers i guess, Hangings too good for the likes o them, It's a good kick up the ar$e they need,,,,,

I make you right
We went to Normandy a few years ago and I was astounded by the quality of the roads (we drove from Calais it's a fair old trek!) it occured to me the french must think they are in a third world country when they drive here!

[Chillitt]

as the man says, the roads round warwick are pretty poor, and what are the council doing now? resurfacing the pavements...

[Esamed]

Some of the worst roads I have encountered are on the IOW.
Just come back from Guilford in the rain on my bike down the A281, never seen such bodging certailnly made for a challenging ride.

[Woodzie]

Some of the worst roads I have encountered are on the IOW.
Just come back from Guilford in the rain on my bike down the A281, never seen such bodging certailnly made for a challenging ride.

Is the A281 that bad now!!!! It used to be a smooth road in the early 90's

The A 360 between shrewton and tilshead is gettig bad and all they are doing is building new tank crossings

[surfcarl]

guys, i go off roading (it feels like it ) every time i jump into my surf....
...... and i,m still driving on the black stuff.....

carl...........

[BUSHWHACKER]

It's the same for bikers......Just where is all the road fund license money going then?

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?pa...EWS_OTHER-NEWS

[Bobby Doc]

I have just heared that they have brought out cobbled roads, I can't wait until we get ours!!!

[Maverick]

Dont laugh but they have just put in a cobbled road in Eling (thats Hampshire not London), its on a corner, and two months latter they had to come back and grind a section down cause the OAPs were having problems walking accross it. When I phoned the council to ask what they were doing I was informed, "it's a visual representation so people know they have left the dual carrigeway, and entered a resedential area." There was me thinking that the houses and shopw might give it away. The rest of the road makes Salisbury plains look smooth, and they've done bugger all to that.

[POPEYE]

They wont spend too much on the I O W as it gradually falling into the sea
and dont seem to want to spend much on sea defences, Cant understand why councils would want to lay cobbles, They were terrible surfaces
especially on a motorbike, Came off me triumph a few times on those ba$tsards, When i worked for the council in the sixties three of us with
mobile compressors spent nine months solid gunning out cobbles,sets and
tram rails all around ports shopping centre, I know for a fact they use up
money (waste it) so they can up the tax and claim their underfunded at the end of the fiscal year (that the right word?) The whole lot are bent