Road resurfacing

[simondjuk]

I thought id post this in the Chesterfield discussion as its mainly about Derbyshire roads anyway.

How do the Highways/Council etc determine if a road warrants a resurfacing?  I'm sure a long time ago I saw something where they use a hand machine which they walk down the road and it measures bumps.  I've also seen them use trucks with lasers on board to scan the surface - although I saw them using them on Motorways.

Im asking partly as I don't know and partly as one road I use daily is getting worse by the day.  This is Station Road between Renishaw and Eckington.  Recently very close to the junction of Spinkhill Lane, a pot hole appeared.  For a few days it got worse and after about 3 days someone filled it.  The morning I noticed it filled in, by the afternoon, it was breaking up again.  Again they filled it, again it broke up so now theres a hole and a skid risk from all the tarmac they used which is now all over the road (at the time of putting this anyway)

On that road, there are at least 5 areas where the road needs to be repaired and to be fair its been a pretty decent surface for quite a long time.  It just seems that over the past couple of weeks, these areas have been appearing.

So what criteria is used to decide if its needs some major work?  Or like a lot of things, is it purely down to cost?

[Slacker]

Cost definitely enters into it. No major woks that aren't already programmed wil be done this financial year.

Potholing is done in response to public complaints and routine inspections.

Patching done from local area budgets.

Surfacing and surface dressing done from a central budget based partly on local area recommendations and partly from preferences of councillors from each ward.

Can be a bit of a balancing act because if a road gets suitably patched it's less likely to be a high priority for full resurfacing.

Aware that A6135 is getting ready. likely to be at least patched after april and in the meantime pothole repairs done (which don't always stay in with a combintation of frosty nights and extreme rainfall)

[Old Cruser]

Slacker I reported two streets with pot holes last year via email. One outside the post office and the other on our street ( actually a string of them ).
Had a reply back saying they had been done!
Have they thump!

[Alsatian]

Potholing is done in response to public complaints and routine inspections.

Bl@@y 'ell how big are the holes in those roads that they're big enough to go potholing?!!!   

[simondjuk]

Many thanks Slacker, very informative and I appreciate the explanation.

[Slacker]

Slacker I reported two streets with pot holes last year via email. One outside the post office and the other on our street ( actually a string of them ).
Had a reply back saying they had been done!
Have they thump!

They tend to respond better to single specific locations, otherwise they tend to just get logged as roads needing general maintenance

[Old Cruser]

I reported them in two seperate emails Slacker giving quite detailed discriptions where they were.