the roads in grimsby are almost undriveable. they are full of cracks, potholes, bumps, undulations, raised manholes, peeling surfaces and loose tarmac.
the whole road network is screwed and the only way to survive on todays roads is to own a huge 4x4 as most of todays town driving includes a very arduous off road track (mainly the streets around the centres of towns and cities)
in the last 7 years the government has changed the way it actually repairs road surfaces. the road surface used to be dug up and relayed with new hardcore and a single layer of tarmac layed on top, whilst still hot another layer is rolled to produce the final surface.
now what they do is scrap off that top layer, scuff it up a bit and lay down 3 of 4 thinner layers but they wait too long between the layers and it hardens. the whole point of having hot tarmac is that the bitumen bonds to the surface below it. if its allowed to cool down between layers it will never last, ask any qualified tarmac drive layer..
so after 2 years of driving over the stuff it starts to peel between the layers, allowing moisture in and after time pot holes appear. or even worse huge chunks of road surface start to peel.
so what do they do?... they patch the holes with hot tarmac that has a high tar to stone ratio (useless on road surfaces) and then lay bitumen tar over the top and sprinkle it with stones. what the hell are they doing?
this is almost criminal as its damaging cars, damaging bikes and endangering lives.
i will say it again, speed has nothing to do with 90% of all road accidents, but with the state of the roads as they are, even doing the speed limit is becoming difficult.
