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Street covered in potholes is sorted

1:30pm Thursday 11th March 2010 in


A WORCESTER street described as nothing more than potholes has been resurfaced.

Worcestershire County Council said it planned to fix Park Street’s pothole problem on Monday, March 8, and – as promised – the road has been resurfaced.

Your Worcester News reported last week how Park Street, off Wyld’s Lane in Worcester, was littered with potholes.

Spetchley resident Andrew Robinson, aged 62, contacted us after he drove down the street in February. He said: “I have never seen anything so bad in my life. It was a joke.”

The council said it was trying to deal with potholes around Worcestershire in an organised manner, with a programme of repairs.

A spokesman said: “As stated in the original article, the potholes on Park Street had been patched as a temporary measure until the weather conditions allowed us to carry out the planned resurfacing work, which was completed this week.

“The county council is continuing to put every effort into repairing potholes as quickly as possible and have so far repaired over 6,000 across the county.”

Potholes have appeared across the country following the freezing conditions this winter and the AA have reported there have been almost £3 million worth of claims in the last month due to potholes.

Motorists can report a problem pothole anywhere in the county by calling the Worcestershire Hub on 0845 6072005 or by logging onto the council’s website at worcestershire.gov.uk/ reportapothole.

Comments(9)

worcester80 says...
1:38pm Thu 11 Mar 10

The council said it was trying to deal with potholes around Worcestershire in an organised manner, with a programme of repairs.
Shame they don't feel the need to put up notices till they are working on a road to let drivers know (like in langdale dr) causing large tail backs and forcing people to make detours and adding time to journeys

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MrStJohns says...
1:50pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Goodness sake get a grip, you’d be complaining next that you’d gone over a pothole and broken a spring. They are doing a good job they have a lot of ground to cover. Sometimes the level of carping is unjustified.

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lowlybarnacle says...
1:52pm Thu 11 Mar 10

This road I believe was only resurfaced a couple of years ago - like the area at the bottom of London road which was only done last year and has crumbled already, are our taxes being used to pay the same contractors who did a rubbish job or are the contractors doing it for free due to their poor quality work?

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jb says...
2:11pm Thu 11 Mar 10

lowlybarnacle you have a good point there. Not long ago a road near where I live was resurfaced but within weeks had to be done again as it was a right mess. Considering some of our roads have lasted for many years without too many problems a lot of the more recently surfaced ones have disintigrated. Maybe someone should take a look at exactly what is used or how the work is done to make and mend our roads. can you imagine in hundreds of years time someone unearthing an ancient Worcester tarmaced road? Maybe the Romans got it right.

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Newsonme says...
2:17pm Thu 11 Mar 10

er... it wouldn't just be the level of traffic nowadays would it?

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Brian Hunt says...
3:32pm Thu 11 Mar 10

I feel also that jb has a point. The road by Sainsbury has been resurfaced twice in a short time.
But not much use complaining about the county council highways dept, it takes them forever to locate the potholes, by which time they have grown into serious holes, and then the quality of the repair seems to justify 2 men 1 shovel , cold tarmac and cold tar, a trample in and move on to the next. Until such time they undertake serious repairs as along Langdale Drive which has been patched that many times only to break up again within weeks / days and using the profesional pot-hole machine they have stashed away somewhere, we will still have a road / street network full of pot-holes, adding to the damage to cars suspension caused by the sleeping policement scatterd along the roads.

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lowlybarnacle says...
7:49pm Thu 11 Mar 10

I'm glad it wasn't just me thinking the new roads were perhaps a poorer quality.

I've mentioned this site before: http://www.fillthath
ole.org.uk

You can add pothole reports easily and the best part is the council is more likely to fix it - they know that if they ignore it, and someone damages their vehicle on a defect that they knew about but failed to act on, they'll have to pay out compensation.

And before the anti-compensation brigade turn up - compensation in this country is only for proven loss - you can't ask for a spurious amount as in other countries.

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New Kid on the Block says...
9:44pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Part of Gregorys Mill Street and Crown Street were recently resurfaced, within days the surface was worse than before they started. Why don't the Council inspect the work that they have done?

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sethgremlin says...
11:42am Fri 12 Mar 10

what about the stae of the road outside st barnabas school? they had plenty of time to re-surface or repair them over the half term period! but no doubt they will wait until it is at it's busiest so it can disrupt everything! council tax? for what?

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