Could easily be chief

i've noticed recently how bad they seem to have become. but i wa sin newcastle last weekend cycling and the roads i was on up there are far worse than they are here

FFS, the global financial markets are in meltdown, basically the world i going to in a handcart and someone's moaning about a few potholes?



Try doing what I've managed for the last 40 years: drive to the conditions, keep your eyes on the road and you shouldn't have too many problems.

Is Cod'ead the moodiest poster in RLfans history?

Willerby Road from Derringham roundabout to Springhead Lane is a terrible surface. Potholes everywhere. Dread to think of traffc problems if they ever try to fix them though.

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Hedon Road is the responsibility of the Highways Agency, which is why i'm surprised they haven't been sorted out. Most of the damage has been caused by lorries tipping over on the roundabouts, mainly due to them driving like idiots.

thats bollox, its down to them laying a poor surface and its crumbling by the day



i nearly ended up in the barriers on marfleet roundabout the other day after hitting 2 pot holes doing only about 20mph

All hail Sir Cod'ead.



FFS the roads mentioned ARE that bad and the potholes can't be avoided without causing an accident.



I've known smoother speed bumps.

I've driven several vehicles with a higher side than an arctic lots of times down Hedon Road. I've never tipped one over on a roundabout.



Go and stand down there for a couple of hours, and see how fast some of the wagons go down there.



Also, the ripped-up surfaces on the roundabouts just happen to be the exact places where lorries came to rest after tipping over.



Lorries only tip over because of 3 factors. Extremely high winds (only on exposed routes, so this can be discredited), high speeds or poorly secured or distributed loads. Also add to the fact that 4 of the tip-overs were from lorries belonging to one local haulage company.

How high is an artic?



Last time I looked there were no height restrictions on any load

The surfacing is shot on hedon road, they have had trouble with is since the day it was put down. and not just in the areas where "vehicles came to rest"



Poor design (of the highway) can also contribute to vehicles tipping over.

OK so most seem to agree the roads are bad. The wider point I was trying to make was about the budgets that seem to me to be misplaced.



Drive from Hull to With or Hornsea for example and you will see a lot of plastic chevrons that have recently been placed on just about every corner no matter how dangerous it appears to be. These blow over in the slightest gale and need constant cost of replacement and maintenance. Seems its standard to place chevrons whether needed or not. There is paint everywhere on the roads - not just on the corners. To me its getting past a joke. Whoever is responsible seems to think we cant negotiate around a bend or read road signs without these guides to help us. Speed humps springing up everywhere. Speed humps that also need to be maintained and at a rate more frequent than a flat road.



We seem to have lost the plot where road safety is concerned. Spend the monies allocated for these needless (imo) projects and spend the money on keeping the roads in our county safe for road users.