howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
anyone that uses north and south military roads will know that remedial work is long overdue. the photo above shows potholes that have been circled outside st martin's battery car park.
this is situated close to two bends and the brow of a hill meaning that the whole road would need to be closed for the work to be carried out, bad news if the a20 has problems.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
they keep filling them potholes in,but as you have pointed out howard they keep reappearing bigger and deeper.if that hotel and memorial goes up there the road would need upgrading urgently.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the hotel and memorial are one issue brian but what if alex gets his way and his chinese friends build thousands of bedsits up the western heights?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
go get a take away.
Guest 761- Registered: 10 Jul 2012
- Posts: 115
This section of road is past patching up. It is also in desperate need of a footpath on the south side as I often encounter pedestrians walking over there, even school children and the combination of blind corners and overhanging trees makes it an accident waiting to happen.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yes mike,there needs a lot of inprovements up there.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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mike, i have to cross that section 3 times a week and is a take your life in your hands effort. drivers do not expect to see pedestrians there and as you say there is no footpath.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
A very small road in Hythe had 29 pot holes marked in it awaiting filling
so it's not just Dover!!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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we were told the freezing temperatures and subsequent grit used were the reasons for many potholes appearing after the last two winters.
nothing of the sort this winter but this has suddenly appeared in my road.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
We all know what needs to be done like the old days the whole rd needs to redone but because of the cutbacks they tell us that cannot be done and they will get round to fill the pot holes but they cannot getout at this time because of the weather they say there are over 2 million potholes to do,time they get round to just some of them ,they need to start all over again,and some of the pot holes when filled need to be looked again in about a week because they drop down and again they need to be toped up .I do not know what can be done. But why are we still having all the cutbacks each day we read in the papers and on the news that the UK is now geting better and we are geting back to the time we had good years, so why the cutbacks ?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,485
It's definitely whole roads in Dover that need resurfacing, not just individual potholes. Snow and frost is usually blamed, but that's just an excuse.
There are so many whole roads in Dover alone that need doing. Off the top of my head near me - Charlton Avenue, Brookfield Avenue, Old Park Road, Crabble Road (outside Crabble), Green Lane.
The surfacing needs to be done to a proper standard too. Take Whitfield Avenue which was resurfaced a couple of years but surface is already collapsing.
Presumably these repairs are the responsibility of KCC, but who locally can put pressure on KCC to do the work?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
You are right sir but there are 100s of roads like that in Kent but they do not have the funding they face real big cutbacks. You can put all the pressure you like on them, but they are in the same boat as the D.D.C. council and all other councils they do not have the funding that has to to come from West mintesr. My writing is very bad today sorry.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the kcc councillors for dover town are pam brivio and cordon cowan.
i think the materials used to fill in pot holes are not as good as in the past, hence the repairs don't last long.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
Perhaps they should use the money we pay as road tax to actually repair the roads. What they do with it I don't know, but the last I heard less than 5% of the road tax revenue was spent on the roads.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,485
There's a big pot hole which has closed the M2 coastbound between Sittingbourne & Faversham. Traffic is being sent down the M20 towards Dover.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/diversions-in-place-following-part-12602/Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
49 ft deep ?? surely not.
Roger
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,806
At that size it sounds like a sink hole rather than a pot hole, undoubtedly caused by all this never ending rain.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Over-reaction. just needs 5 cubic yards of shingle and a concrete cap then job done. Probably the hole has been there since 1964.
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