Done my part, now it's your f....ng turn.
Done my part, now it's your f....ng turn.
I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
Fixing the pot hole will only be a temporary solution, you need to fix the cause of the pot hole which in most instances is the ingress of water into the pavement layer underneath the premix.
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
Bob Dylan
The roads in JHB right now (and I'm sure in many other places) are a total joke. I blew a tire the other night when I hit a very well camoflaged miniature water-filled version of the Kimberly hole. Bloody tire hadn't even done 1000 km. Ah well, another R1000 in ...haha, you guessed it...the HOLE! The locals obviously know this group of potholes very well because all the cars that drove by knowngly gave the area a wide berth as the occupants gawked at the "dumbass" changing his wheel in the mud at midnight.
I heard that you can claim damages from the Roads Agency in such cases. I hear it can take forever for this to happen but I thought I'd give it a try. In order to do so, I was advised to get a case number from the police. That's when the next joke came into play. For all they cared I could have been Osama Bin Laden. Not once, when filling in the accident report, did the police ask to see my ID or driver's license.
Hey MagicDude... when can you fix this pothole?
but this is in Durban and the pothole is big enough to not stuff up your tires ;-)Originally Posted by Garyvdh
Hey MagicDude... when can you fix this pothole?
How about my collage of roughly 100 potholes on 12km (difficult to judge size, but if you hit one of those doing more than 40km, your car is really effed):
BTW: If you are familiar with that mother of a pothole on William Nicol or Main Rd or Rivonia, then you know what I mean - hit that thing in the middle of the night.....
Do what the British folk do.
PLANT A TREE and take a photo for the local paper.
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In Cape Town we call that surface damage. No potholes there. Move on folks, nothing to see.but this is in Durban and the pothole is big enough to not stuff up your tires ;-)
How about my collage of roughly 100 potholes on 12km (difficult to judge size, but if you hit one of those doing more than 40km, your car is really effed):
BTW: If you are familiar with that mother of a pothole on William Nicol or Main Rd or Rivonia, then you know what I mean - hit that thing in the middle of the night.....
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Heres an old article from 1983...
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Is it me or is this situation getting ridiculous? Has it ever been this bad? There is one pothole on Northumberland near Northgate that must have at least 1000 victims by now. There is always someone changing their tyre on that road, and yes it's a 80 zone.
Jägermeiʃter can fix that!
I am almost starting to think that the tyre companies are digging up the roads in the middle of the night - economic downturn and all....
I have the key ingredient to fixing potholes. it will improve the life span of tar/roads by up to 40%. I have all the scientific literature to back it up. If you are interested contact me on kevint077@gmail.com
Contact the Government, maybe they will buy your ingredients
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I also have the key-ingredients: patience.... patience.... and the odd tyre fitment centre ;-)
BTW: No company is willing to fix a public road. On the upside, some kind soul decided to fill up all potholes with a mix of sand/concrete .... all ~100 or so...
On the upside, I am changing jobs and will not travel that particular stretch of road.
This is awesome...
As an English guy overseas I love how 'wet' conditions can effect things.
I grew up in 1 foot of water and the roads there are great!
Well ive left my house in the morning, a very quiet street, to come home finding a giant pot hole in the street I live about two or three times on the 12km trip I make daily. These holes mostly on roads that are not that frequently travelled on. I cant begin to think what can cause that damage in 8 hours? Must be some sort of truck with heavy loads or something dropping peices of cement of sorts. I have no idea.
Luckily here it takes the city about 5 or so days to fix an average pothole.. here in Durbanville at least.
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