tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Some of the potholes now have their own potholes.
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Worst Pot Holes in Stafford.
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Chillybean
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Should the Stafford pothole deepen, beware of sticking your head through or you'll pop up offshore New Zealand. Any South Island towns that we should be twinned with?
staffordjas
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Watching the workmen drilling out the pavement around my water meter yesterday and re- tarmacking , and seeing how fast they could do it...was thinking to myself how come Stafford potholes can't be done so efficiently and done properly in the first place?
When they filled in a couple on Radford Bank a couple of years ago ( Stafford half was coming up) , and the ones by Wildwood pub , I watched them just bung loose tarmac into the existing holes and drive off. Few minutes later cars were driving over and the loose fillings were being churned back up!
I guess it is quite bureaucratic to close a piece of road off?
staffordjas
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They managed to do a stretch of main road around here rather quickly the other day when a massive pot hole appeared. Went to avoid it last night and it had already been done.
Was thinking to myself last night , those massive ones on Wolverhampton Rd outside the chemist/ beauty room ( Old Peter Cooks).. could do a lane at a time , but there again the other lanes would be closed with lights for their vans to be parked. I've struggled even walking over that part in the past.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Those potholes, as well as the ones on Corporation Street and the one on Newport Road railway bridge, are Grade 2 listed now, so cannot be touched.
Rowley Reg
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Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
There was a raised patch outside the Sandonia a few years back. It would give a car a good thump and could easily have the unaware rider off a bike.www.facebook.com
Is this the only way to get action?
'They' sprayed a white line round it and wrote "Temp".
It was there for so long that the paint wore away and it was reapplied - twice.
Eventually, 'someone' applied the paint for the fourth time, but with the word 'Perm?'
PeterD
ST16 Represent.
We had a pothole by the school in Highfield Grove, not particularly wide but very deep and opposite parked cars on a narrow bit of road. Seems to be that with all of the many many potholes on the many many roads, at some point yesterday this irritatingly small but deep pothole was filled in.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I have a rudimentary mental map now of where to position myself to avoid many. Left lane entering kingsway even if going to aldi, hug the central line going past the army base, that sort of thing.
Cue
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Moving towards that, Tesla started auto-adjusting suspension for “rough road” last year, avoidance requires a bit more though as it has to override the “don’t swerve into another lane” directive too
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I assumed the reasoning for that was a laser sees an object, a camera can work out what it is?
Well you want a 3D map to avoid hitting things and in the case of potholes, driving into deep holes. Lasers will give you that, a camera can give you that, but requires more complex algorithms to process the image and I'm not sure it would be able to determine a pothole, might just look like a thin line on the road until you get close by which time it is too late.
Len's Lens
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I'd like to nominate the section of the A34 from the Holmcroft Road/North Road crossroads to the Crispin Court old folks home as the joint worst stretch of highway in the area for potholes and general messiness. It's where the roadworks obstacle course is at the moment. It has gradually deteriorated over the years and no repairs have been made to it. When they surface dressed the rest of the road into Stafford 1.5 yrs ago, they didn't bother doing this stretch, not sure why. With the never-ending roadworks and temporary single carriageway, it'll become an ATV track before too long. Hope they completely relay the whole length at some point.
The A34 Fillybrooks/Shell station roundabout in Stone is also a disgrace and shares joint worst position.
The A34 Fillybrooks/Shell station roundabout in Stone is also a disgrace and shares joint worst position.
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They filled one at the bottom of Overhill Road that I've had to be careful of for a few weeks now. Street View shows it on their last refresh of imagery in July 2022. So it must have been fixed before or has it been there that long?
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Right, I ain't going back over 9 'pages' to look this up, but youngest and I have just come back from the Knot & Plough, took the scenic route home. (Beaconside) Has anyone seen the potholes by the turn to Sandon Road? They're more like craters, I had play hopscotch with the things till we got to Hopton Lane. Then as you turn out of Beaconside to go left at the Stone Road, there's like a sandpit, but grotty, gritty tarmac.