This is what I pay my Council Tax for...

[Ivor Tingting]

It's a pity they are not so keen to keep the road surface maintained from pot holes. Some stretches I ride down it can only be like riding in Baghdad or the West Bank .

[drsquirrel]

Lucky! My experience with this is them putting up "Slow" signs, I did it recently, few months later, the blocked drain is still blocked (covering half the road in deepish water) the signs are still up (and now being ignored).


Like what everyone else says, the people "laying it" are responsible for clearing it, it could be possible the Council seeing this as an easy "get someone else to sort it" just told the site contractors or whomever to sort it.

[jan19]

It may well be the duty of the contractors to keep the road clear - they may well have done it, I don't know because I didn't see who actually did it. I just know getting onto the Council got someone to clear that stretch of road. I hope it was the contractors because they now know somebody will complain if they don't....

As regards appealing to their better nature on behalf of the neighbours - won't work in this case because there aren't any - this housing development is going up on waste land in the middle of the common and isn't close to anyone. Heaven help us when they're all built and every one has a car waiting to use an already very busy A road.

Jan

[eltonioni]

Pretty much all contracts have a clause for the contractor to keep roads clean on pain of electrodes to the testicles. The building company in question / client are a better bet than the council who have nothing to do with it unless it becomes an enforcement matter.

[Kirst]

On the second day of LeJog I got hit in the teeth by a stone fired from under a car tyre. I saw it coming and ducked, but it still hit me. It did not lasting damage but it felt as if it had knocked my teeth out. My mouth was numb for part of the morning.

It is for that reason that I almost always wear eye protection. I can't imagine what it would have been like if the stone hit me in the eye! I've been hit by insects including being stung by wasps. Again another good reason for the glasses.

I know it sounds ridiculous, and when I related the story at work one bloke laughed until he cried, but I got hit in the face by a bee once and it really really really hurt. I don't think the bee was too pleased either.

[thirdcrank]

... I got hit in the face by a bee once and it really really really hurt. I don't think the bee was too pleased either.

I've probably related on here before how that once happened to me but the bee got partly up my nose then stung me on my upper lip near my nostril. I was out in the country and just getting into panic mode when two cyclists appeared in the other direction. They must have thought they were being attacked by a madman when I rode across the road waving my arms but they stopped and kindly removed the sting (which I could not see, of course.) The bee did not survive my removing it from my nostril.