“A local council has been criticised for painting over potholes instead of filling them in.
A spokesman for North Northamptonshire council admitted the work was “shoddy” and vowed to correct the mistake.”
Presumably the contractors were told to do the road markings unaware of the potholes. So they did their job correctly.
Its all paperwork. If the job isnt to fill in the holes they wont
Notoriously difficult to fill in potholes with paint afaik.
“I want the most on-the-nose symbol of the country you have”
“No, that’s too on-the-nose”
There’s no money to fix them, the government cut council’s budgets by 40% bankrupting some of them and then the cash went into the pockets of their rich friends. I wish this was hyperbole but we all saw where the money went.
They’ve done this is my area too under Buckinghamshire council. The road is, in some places, so potholed that cars swerve to avoid them. That’s obviously dangerous and fixing it should be a priority for the council. We got told the road would be closed for a night for maintenance, but it turns out all they did was repaint the lines right through the damn potholes.
Because roadmarking gangs don’t do pothole work funnily enough and there is a legislative requirement to have zig zag markings on a zebra crossing but anyway let’s bash a Council or whatever authority it is for the lolz.
That just about sums this country up currently absolute fuckwits if brains were dynamite they wouldn’t have enough to singe their eyebrows!
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“A local council has been criticised for painting over potholes instead of filling them in.
A spokesman for North Northamptonshire council admitted the work was “shoddy” and vowed to correct the mistake.”
Presumably the contractors were told to do the road markings unaware of the potholes. So they did their job correctly.
Its all paperwork. If the job isnt to fill in the holes they wont
Notoriously difficult to fill in potholes with paint afaik.
“I want the most on-the-nose symbol of the country you have”
“No, that’s too on-the-nose”
There’s no money to fix them, the government cut council’s budgets by 40% bankrupting some of them and then the cash went into the pockets of their rich friends. I wish this was hyperbole but we all saw where the money went.
They’ve done this is my area too under Buckinghamshire council. The road is, in some places, so potholed that cars swerve to avoid them. That’s obviously dangerous and fixing it should be a priority for the council. We got told the road would be closed for a night for maintenance, but it turns out all they did was repaint the lines right through the damn potholes.
Because roadmarking gangs don’t do pothole work funnily enough and there is a legislative requirement to have zig zag markings on a zebra crossing but anyway let’s bash a Council or whatever authority it is for the lolz.
That just about sums this country up currently absolute fuckwits if brains were dynamite they wouldn’t have enough to singe their eyebrows!