Pothole work planned for Blackburn (From Blackburn Citizen)
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Pothole work planned for Blackburn
2:00pm Sunday 10th March 2013 in Blackburn
TWELVE sections of road in Blackburn with Darwen are to be treated with a revolutionary new surface this summer in a bid to cure the borough’s pothole problem.
Following a flood of complaints about cracked and pitted highways, the borough council has secured £334,000 from the government for ‘innovative’ solutions to the motorists’ plague.
The extra cash will be used to repair the surfaces with ‘micro-asphalt’ - a new compound trialled in Salford last year - which is cheaper, quicker and better resists severe cold weather.
Borough regeneration director Brian Bailey said the new cash and surface treatment would allow engineers not just to tackle those roads badly hit by potholes and fissures after recent freezing winters but apply early repairs to highways where deterioration was beginning but not yet critical.
He said: “With the aid of the extra £330,000 from the Department of Transport, we will be able to use this revolutionary new technique not just to make emergency repairs but patch longer sections.
“For the first time in decades, it will allow us to tackle sections of road that are not on red alert but those suffering degradation before they reach crisis point.
“This provides value for money and reduces the real problems potholes cause for motorists and cyclists in the future.”
Roads in the progamme for 2013/2014 are: Linden Lea, Blackburn; Union Street, Darwen; Church Bank Street, Darwen; East Park Avenue, Blackburn; Birchall Avenue, Darwen; Hazel Avenue, Darwen; Conway Avenue, Blackburn; Rhyl Avenue, Blackburn; Snowdon Avenue, Blackburn; Harcourt Road, Blackburn; St John’s Avenue, Darwen; and Pole Lane, Darwen.
Blackburn with Darwen council executive member for highways Dave Harling said: “The state of the roads is one of the most important issues for residents and after a couple of bad winters, we know that many have deteriorated even further.
“With our limited budgets, we need to ensure that we use innovative new ways to tackle the worst areas in the most effective way.
“Instead of just the essential filling-in of potholes we need to ensure that we make longer lasting repairs so that our resources go further. ”
Comments(18)
mrdd186
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4:55pm Sun 10 Mar 13
burner
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5:32pm Sun 10 Mar 13
s_smith
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8:22pm Sun 10 Mar 13
burner
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8:38pm Sun 10 Mar 13
s_smith wrote:Thanx for that info, Mr s., now all I want are my two front teeth !!! / : o )
Well mrdd186 and burner, you will be pleased to know that resurfacing starts this week on both of those roads, according to the roadworks bulletin on the council website.
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Can I now ask why is the massive revalation in this news item is . . . such a massive revalation? Will these be sprinkled with Holy Water by the new Pope?
soap opera
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8:55pm Sun 10 Mar 13
s_smith
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9:21pm Sun 10 Mar 13
burner wrote:I dont know why they are calling it "revolutionary". A quick google search reveals it has been used all over the place for at least a decade. Perhaps it is only "revolutionary" because its now arrived in Blackburn?
s_smith wrote:Thanx for that info, Mr s., now all I want are my two front teeth !!! / : o )
Well mrdd186 and burner, you will be pleased to know that resurfacing starts this week on both of those roads, according to the roadworks bulletin on the council website.
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Can I now ask why is the massive revalation in this news item is . . . such a massive revalation? Will these be sprinkled with Holy Water by the new Pope?
Of course, if they spent more money on tar and chippings at the right time and not full resurfacing after the whole lot has been destroyed, the roads wouldnt be in the state they are.
burner
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10:59pm Sun 10 Mar 13
s_smith
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11:11pm Sun 10 Mar 13
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I would hardly call myself "interesting"... more *interested* in knowing exactly where my money is being spent. Indeed, as we all should be.
Google is the index on a library of information out there.
There are many Acts out there which allow us, the local tax payers, to scrutinise every bit of expenditure going on at the council. Indeed, councillors have been convicted in the past on the back of interested citizens scrutinising the accounts.
Now there is food for thought, eh. Find out which councillors are not exactly whiter than white? Hmm!
s_smith
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11:15pm Sun 10 Mar 13
burner
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9:08am Mon 11 Mar 13
mrdd186
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10:25am Mon 11 Mar 13
s_smith wrote:lets hope the do it right because the way they filled the pot holes was a waste of money.who gave the go ahead to fill the pot holes on whitebirk rd knowing it was to be resurfaced 4 weeks later ,(right lads lets go out on sunday and look like we are doing something and get double time ) and you wonder why your council tax is going up they are taking the p1ss
Well mrdd186 and burner, you will be pleased to know that resurfacing starts this week on both of those roads, according to the roadworks bulletin on the council website.
jack denials
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1:11pm Mon 11 Mar 13
"I read the news today, oh boy. Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. And though the holes were rather small. They had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall."
reader207
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5:16pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Yes , just having had to have new springs on my car I now try to avoid the potholes as well as everything else on the road. Come on Blackburn let's be sensible , put safety first , it could save lives as well as services .
reader207
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5:22pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Yes , just having had to have new springs on my car I now try to avoid the potholes as well as everything else on the road. Come on Blackburn let's be sensible , put safety first , it could save lives as well as services .
Major Tom
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12:54am Tue 12 Mar 13
s_smith
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1:50am Tue 12 Mar 13
mrdd186 wrote:well, its resurfacing so I can only presume it will be done like all the others in the last couple of years. Why dont you ask the council?
s_smith wrote:lets hope the do it right because the way they filled the pot holes was a waste of money.who gave the go ahead to fill the pot holes on whitebirk rd knowing it was to be resurfaced 4 weeks later ,(right lads lets go out on sunday and look like we are doing something and get double time ) and you wonder why your council tax is going up they are taking the p1ss
Well mrdd186 and burner, you will be pleased to know that resurfacing starts this week on both of those roads, according to the roadworks bulletin on the council website.
If potholes were filled then they were done because they had reached the threshold for treatment... which I beleive is 50mm deep to be done on an "emergency". Although to be fair, Sunday on Whitebirk Rd is perhaps the only time it is possible to actually get in to do the work without arranging temporary traffic lights etc to do the job.
Again, google is ones guide here. Filling in potholes the way the council do around here is a bit pointless. Perhaps they should use something like Jetpatch or something. However the councillors wont do ANYTHING unless we, the electorate, start pressurising them to do something different. It doesnt take much to take a look around the internet, find something that isnt done in Blackburn and then put pressure on the councillors to get the officers to look in to it.
HU
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8:56am Tue 12 Mar 13
When will someone sort that road out!
germanshep123 says...
2:30pm Sun 10 Mar 13