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[Misc] Late night pot hole repairs



Dick Swiveller

Dick Swiveller

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Sep 9, 2011
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Was woken up at 11:15pm on Friday night with a electric sawing noise. Turns out, the council had turned up to do one of their "block the road for 15 minutes and repair a pothole" things I have seen around the count a couple of times. Bit of drilling and banging and they were on their way. But getting on for midnight? Is this a thing elsewhere or were this crew just running late and facing a fine? This is essentially a residential crescent so not urgent.

In true Daily Mail style, I feel compelled to mention that it isn't a direction I normally go so I took the long way yesterday to confirm it was a pothole, which it was. With another large pothole 6 feet away. "If it ain't on my list, I ain't doing it guv."
 






Nobby Cybergoat

Nobby Cybergoat

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Jul 19, 2021
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Dick Swiveller said:
Was woken up at 11:15pm on Friday night with a electric sawing noise. Turns out, the council had turned up to do one of their "block the road for 15 minutes and repair a pothole" things I have seen around the count a couple of times. Bit of drilling and banging and they were on their way. But getting on for midnight? Is this a thing elsewhere or were this crew just running late and facing a fine? This is essentially a residential crescent so not urgent.

In true Daily Mail style, I feel compelled to mention that it isn't a direction I normally go so I took the long way yesterday to confirm it was a pothole, which it was. With another large pothole 6 feet away. "If it ain't on my list, I ain't doing it guv."
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Great top hear the public spirited response, but i'm calling any pothole repair an unexpected positive
 


Baldseagull

Baldseagull

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Jan 26, 2012
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Crawley
Dick Swiveller said:
Was woken up at 11:15pm on Friday night with a electric sawing noise. Turns out, the council had turned up to do one of their "block the road for 15 minutes and repair a pothole" things I have seen around the count a couple of times. Bit of drilling and banging and they were on their way. But getting on for midnight? Is this a thing elsewhere or were this crew just running late and facing a fine? This is essentially a residential crescent so not urgent.

In true Daily Mail style, I feel compelled to mention that it isn't a direction I normally go so I took the long way yesterday to confirm it was a pothole, which it was. With another large pothole 6 feet away. "If it ain't on my list, I ain't doing it guv."
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Might have been particularly deep and been made a priority.
 






schmunk

schmunk

Centrist Dad
Jan 19, 2018
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Mid mid mid Sussex
Not quite the same thing, but I used to live in a house which backed onto the Metropolitan Line in outer London.

I was awoken at about 3 O'FLIPPING CLOCK IN THE MORNING by a distant "Heave!" CLANG, "Heave!" CLANG, "Heave!" CLANG, "Heave!" CLANG, "Heave!" CLANG... which got louder then quieter over the course of about 20 minutes as the maintenance crew worked their way past.
 




Dick Swiveller

Dick Swiveller

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Sep 9, 2011
9,415
Hamilton said:
Be thankful they came out and filled it.
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Was only slightly perturbed by the noise and at least it was a Friday but surely they are on double bubble at that time?
 








Withdean South Stand

Withdean South Stand

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Mar 2, 2014
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Dick Swiveller said:
Was only slightly perturbed by the noise and at least it was a Friday but surely they are on double bubble at that time?
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And then some on top as well I'd have thought. I would imagine it was because of the depth and/or width of the hole - once it gets to a certain size the council are on the hook to fill it within 24 hours. It's also why you get the crazy situation of a hole being measured, being slightly under the requirement and being deemed safe.

There was one hole which had been reported multiple times to the council, reviewed several times and deemed safe to leave (but be added to a backlog list). The resident who kept reporting it then reported it again saying something had changed, so it was reviewed again and was found to be almost double the size it had been less than a day ago. Obviously, nobody is suggesting the resident took a sledgehammer to it or anything like that - but it got filled pretty quickly.
 






Dick Swiveller

Dick Swiveller

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Sep 9, 2011
9,415
Withdean South Stand said:
And then some on top as well I'd have thought. I would imagine it was because of the depth and/or width of the hole - once it gets to a certain size the council are on the hook to fill it within 24 hours. It's also why you get the crazy situation of a hole being measured, being slightly under the requirement and being deemed safe.

There was one hole which had been reported multiple times to the council, reviewed several times and deemed safe to leave (but be added to a backlog list). The resident who kept reporting it then reported it again saying something had changed, so it was reviewed again and was found to be almost double the size it had been less than a day ago. Obviously, nobody is suggesting the resident took a sledgehammer to it or anything like that - but it got filled pretty quickly.
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The irony being that I didn't know there was a pothole as it is the long way around the crescent but in going to be nosy, I hit the pothole 6 feet away from the one they patched! I am guessing it must have been very deep as there are so many others around town on much busier roads, it seems a strange one to do at such a late hour. I wondered if it was like my knee op being on a specially opened on a Saturday, Bexhill hospital just to meet the 6 month target. More likely, a councillor probably lives close.
 


Dick Swiveller

Dick Swiveller

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Sep 9, 2011
9,415
Nobby Cybergoat said:
Great top hear the public spirited response, but i'm calling any pothole repair an unexpected positive
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That was my assumption rather than me going and asking them. Surely if you have blocked the road and have the kit then fill another one next to it for the sake of another 5 minutes? I know councils don't/can't work like that but reminds me of the BT engineer who spent 3 hours running a line at one of our sites then, looking at his next job, found he had to run a second line on exactly the same route.
 


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