I've not looked into this but the issue with pothole filling is you need to replace every layer of the tarmac, when citizens that don't have training start filling potholes, it creates more safety issues due to the quick degradation of the road caused by improper repair.
Tell that to UK councils who just poor in some hot snot and call it a day.
Pretty sure most government contractors don't do that lol. Explains why their pot hole filling is garbage.
official pot hole filling in Tennessee is just garbage bumpy pourings of tar into the hole
his can't be any worse
I've never see entire layers replaced. Usually they fill just the hole or they spray some sealant on cracks.
You are assuming way too many things get done right the first time, if at all, especially in America. Our roads NEED to be completely stripped and redone, new lanes and bridges and what not. This will never get properly funded though.
Lol tell that to literally every fucking company in the US because no one here fills potholes properly then. It's all about the lowest bidder which means the lowest quality work 99.9% of the time.
Around me the city workers just roll around with cold patch in a trailer and shovel that shit into the hole and let cars pack it in.
The potholes over here are completely fucked, I've damaged my front suspension on them.
They do the same damn thing here in New Mexico, too. With water still in the hole, even.
The man's a fucking idiot and should be punished.
It's an entire health and safety nightmare with an added sprinkling of legal matters too.
Filling in roads requires trained work
And EVEN MORE if we need to work with tar
What if someone gets hurt? Someone needs to held accountable.
Not for punishment, but so we can understand who did what, what steps where missed, went wrong and how we can improve it in the future.
It requires paperwork, detailed information on who is working, how many are working, their skills, are they trained and competent to complete the tasks given, are they supervised, is the equipment required to complete the project up to government set standards, is the workplace dangerous, does the workplace need any special rules and regulations, how long is this task set to be completed in, are there any underground services that must be maintained, is there any danger of loss of life, how safe are the roads, do you meet the minimum requirement sightlines for oncoming vehicles, can they fucking see YOU?
what PPE is needed, what service lines will you be crossing, are you working near gas lines, do you have the ability to close the road if something goes wrong
Jesus christ does the list go on.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN GETTING TO THE LEGAL LEVEL YET
Say a car hits him while he's doing this.
The driver was not given reliable information that there where roadworks ahead, therefore he has absolutely no reason to suspect that some stupid asshole is throwing gravel into oncoming cars
The council/government now have to waste your time, making sure that this daft twat hasn't completely compromised the the road because we'll probably have to dig it ALL up now.
So now we'll be spending a WEEK doing a job that takes a couple of days AT MOST.
Transportation and Infrastruture Renewal (TIR) where aware of the road, they'll get to it after they've dealt with the other 30-odd trillion miles of asphalt. there's a lot of road in the world and not enough people that understand that this is a hindrance.
In conclusion: fuck this man. He's not helping.
Wisconsin too please. It's gotten so bad we have a website named Scott Holes entirely dedicated to showing the crumbling infrastructure the previous administration of Scott Walker did nothing to stop.
Safe Transportation Over Politics
I mostly see roads in Missouri repaired in patches, or strips, like a quilt.
Every pothole in my neighborhood (half the road surface basically) is just a sinkhole full of gravel. The city comes through every once in a while and pitches gravel with a shovel into the holes from the back of a truck moving at about 2 mph. They don't get out of the truck, they don't tamp the gravel down, and if they miss they don't go back and do it again. They might as well have this guy do it.
You need training to use a shovel? Does he need a shovel loicense?
Its unfortunate for you and your neighbourhood that they think thats an appropriate way to keep the roads safe.
Not knowing how your system of government works, I'd recommend you film it next time they come along and inform your local government representative, the Transportation and Infrastruture Renewal (TIR) and any other road traffic affiliated organisations.
At that point (assuming that it's a standard street road) we'd consider that a is now direct hazard to life and limb.
You're highlighting exactly why corruption is so infuriating. We're paying taxes and seeing our roads get worse and worse every year. Which is why a protest like this is so refreshing.
I live in a town with roads so bad that I couldn't explain it to you in a way you would even believe, in super corrupt state. I felt like such an idiot last year. I drove to Springfield and the roads were flat. I felt like an idiot because I didn't realize roads could be flat. I just assumed that the weather/cars fucked the roads up so much that it was something you just had live with and I'm a little embarrassed that it took me driving a two-wheeled vehicle in another city to see how hard we're getting boned by our local govt. Turns out, you can drive more than a block without almost falling off your vehicle because of how bad the roads are.
A patch won't last forever but it's better than nothing and better than waiting for a whole road to be resurfaced.
The other thing is other people complain about potholes but at the same time don't bother reporting them. There's even a website for it https://www.gov.uk/report-pothole
There's been a few repairs my way that I like to think happened because I reported them
People filling potholes where cities cannot is doing more than just leaving potholes standing. I live in Minnesota, our roads are literally chewed to bits every spring because of all the snow and plowing that has to be done. The street my shop is on currently has more potholes than everyone who had posted in this thread has fingers and toes combined, and their solution was to just fill the biggest holes with gravel.
Stop acting like this dudes going to cause the next 35 car pile up. At least hes trying to do something, and he's doing more than what some cities do.
We know how our systems of government work: They don't.
You aught to see Maryland. I joke about our state quote being "Maryland: More potholes than swiss has holes."
Wisconsin checking in. Winter wrecked our roads, as usual, and they drove around and threw a tar/asphalt mix into the holes. Lasts about a week before it's back to being garbage. So, sure doesn't seem like they're doing anything special there.
Maybe the individuals doing government's job for the benefit of everyone is a pretty good sign that the government isn't working at all
I think awhile back there was an article about Dominos fixing potholes because local government was too incompetent to get it done themselves. That alone should say something, too.
Here in Massachusetts (and I assume much of New England) you learn on your daily commute where the "big ones" are, and how to navigate them and not snap a goddamn axle. I appreciate this guy and his ability to help other people out over the craphat contractor team that puts a lump of hot tarmac in a hole and it lasts 2 months because it dries out and pretty much doesn't exist in a couple months.
Granted, Mass has been on top of it pretty well in the last couple years, but I still know of a couple wheel-benders here and there.
You're right that there's a culpability issue in the case of an accident but that's it.
Leaving potholes open is far more dangerous than vigilante-filling them. The county is endangering lives with their inaction and he's doing the only thing he can.
Maryland here, we're not much better. I lived on a bumpy road where frankly it had the same potholes for decades, I'd guess they were there for over 20 years easy, we just learned to live with them and they became popular enough that everyone just naturally learned where they are. I think it was about 3 years ago that we actually saw any of them get filled.
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