Caerphilly County Borough Council has produced a simple guide to advise residents how to report potholes and the process to repair them.
The guides can be found in local libraries, leisure centres and on the council’s website.
On average the council repairs 2,000 potholes a year, with those an immediate danger to road users made safe within two hours.
Cabinet Member for Highways, Transportation and Engineering, Cllr Tom Williams, said: “The highways team have a very large portfolio and dealing with in excess of 20,000 repairs annually is just a small part of their workload.
“The safety of residents is of paramount importance and the team work tirelessly to ensure all aspects of our public highways are safe and well maintained.”
If the council were competent when it came to money management there would be a sensible roadways plan in place to resurface roads before potholes can develop.
If they also used competent people to resurface roads they wouldn’t have to keep wasting money doing it, my road was resurfaced very poorly although highways came out and told the residents that it was satisfactory, less than 12 months after it was put down it needed patching up as the surface started to break up, now each time we get a moderately warm day the surface turns to treacle and lumps of it come off, it now looks just as bad as it did before the cowboy contractors resurfaced it.
It amazes me how the council took two weeks to resurface a 100ft stretch of road but Heathrow Airport resurfaces miles of runway in a week when only working at night. The council spend lots of money on people who squander it when doing the jobs. Cheap materials are sued, the incorrect mixtures are used, the incorrect procedure is followed; the council never do it right.
At least the Caerphilly Council are acting in a proactive way on this issue, the proof of its sucess will be the reduction in the number of potholes, and an improvement to the roads, but will rely on the efficiency of the very people Paul mentions.
Cabinet Member for Highways is the man to contact if it does`nt work, he said ““The safety of residents is of paramount importance and the team work
tirelessly to ensure all aspects of our public highways are safe and
well maintained.”
There you are Paul.
Work tirelessly, indeed. In a project 50% of the time is spent drinking tea, 30% of is spent reading The Sun, 10% of time is spend on breaks, and 10% of the time is spent actually doing the work.
There should be a policy in place where a pot hole is filled in within 48 hours of it being reported.
I AM surprised, and would be even more shocked, if your contention that 30% of all Council Road repair workers read a TORY newspaper.
I would be shocked if they read any newspaper. It is the naked woman they buy the Sun for.
That`s a Tory paper for you.
“The Sun wots won it” – The Sun was a left, Labour paper in 1997. The naked woman says more about the readers than it does the paper.
I certainly agree Dean, and in 1997 we got Mr Blair. O` Dear.
Let’s hope there are fewer holes in the roads in future, one good by product of bicycle races is that the roads used are resurfaced. The trouble is that other roads are ignored, my own street is in very poor order and has been for years. I suspect aht this is true of minor roads all over the borough.
Once the road surface is broken up in any way winter weather soon makes the situation worse. The remedy for this is much more expensive than if remedial work was undertaken as and when damage was reported.
I sometimes get annoyed that the extortion of road tax doesn’t end up on fixing the road then I remember my time in Poland and shut my mouth as we don’t have it half as bad over here as they do on the main drag into the capital city over there.