Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

At a public meeting held by the highways dept about the new motorway junction they were building they were asked how they would stop people using the very narrow winding local country road very close to the junction as a rat run to the motorway (the road that Rod Stewart was in the news last year about the potholes in it).

The reply was that nobody would bother to use it! There were some very choice words used at the meeting about their reply. The end result was the potholes mentioned above.

So Highways put up signs saying 'Narrow Road Local Traffic Only'. Which, of course, was totally ignored. They then changed the signs to very large ones saying 'Residents of ...... Only' making not a blind bit of difference.

Satnavs don't read road sign!

The repair to the potholes that the council made to the road only worked for a matter of weeks. Now there are potholes in the road and deep ruts at the as there is water continuously running across the road from the high field on one side down the filed on the other side to the river.

Large vehicles are always getting stuck because of oncoming traffic and a very large lorry carrying about a dozen cars caused chaos the other week.

Are they doing anything about it? No! Reason given:- they'll soon learn not to go down there.

 

I wonder if all councils have a special training school where practicality, sense and humility is removed.

 

One of my friends, a retired road engineer, was banned by his wife from going to any public planning meetings after getting so annoyed that he stood up and said all their planners spend all day hunting for a brain cell!

 

It was a good publicity stunt and worked well. As the council wasn't doing anything despite numerous calls about the almost impossible state of the road he hired a lorry of gravel to fill in the holes. He just did enough to have the photo taken and then the others finished it. The council came and did the holes with tarmac the next week - after all the publicity in the media.

Unfortunately they did a rubbish job by not using the right type of tarmac. The holes came back within a month. They then did the surface of the road (almost) properly. It hasn't helped a great deal! .

Hence my post above.

As locals a lot of us have stopped using that road as it is too dangerous with deep ruts at the sides of the road caused by the heavy vehicles trying to get past each other. None of us want to meet an oncoming lorry carrying a dozen cars when the road is barely wide enough for two cars - at a squeeze.

Signed,
Grumpy Old Man

 

Actually, he is a very nice and kind person. He helps support local charities and even supported someone in the local hospital.

 

As he lives just down the road I tend to hear about the good things he does and how nice he is when he goes shopping - and down the pub

 

Yes - but I don't gossip