A story full of holes .....

Finally the torrential downpours we experienced a few weeks ago have left for other shores, although even now we are still getting the sudden unexpected deluge.  However these tend to be short and sharp rather than day-long concerted efforts at making our lives miserable.  As a result repair crews have attacked several of the local major roads with gusto.  Resurfacing has been carried out on the very worst and most lethal offenders, and although sometimes still a bumpy ride, driving is now nothing like as bad as it was a few weeks ago on the main roads at least.  However in the back streets it's a different story.  The crews seem to have been concentrating, quite rightly, on the main routes in and out of the city, which were truly dire and of course caused problems for far more people.  Meanwhile B roads and back streets appeared to have been forgotten, or so I thought.  

Road outside my house before repair

 Imagine my surprise then one morning early this week when stepping out onto the road outside our house I no longer found this, but this.

Road outside my house after repair

 This is what I call “teaspoon treatment”.  A spoonful of tarmac is dropped into a hole, smoothed over, and that’s it.  

Cutting edge technology is not required for this, and probably not much expense either.

Cutting edge technology is not required

Presumably this patching up of holes in the road is to prevent more claims from disgrntled drivers. Provided you call in the metropolitan police to witness it, damage done to tyres by badly damaged roads here can being charged back to the local authority.  I should imagine recently they’ve been inundated with claims, and so this is a stopgap solution to prevent more broken tyres.  At least I hope it’s a stopgap solution and not a permanent one! 

Here's another large crack repaired this week

Here’s another large crack “repaired” this week.  It’s been raining quite heavily here this weekend. 

Anyone want to lay bets on how long this will last?

  Anyone want to lay bets on how long the repair lasts?