I must disagree with Councillor
Richard Davies when he says that 'Pot hole capital' (22/10) is due to
'generations of under- investment'. Our roads collapsed in one sustained period
of extreme cold weather over a period of just one month, January 2011. and not
over a long period as he suggests. I raised this then on my web site and the
page is still there to this day. We should all be asking why this happened? Our
roads never used to collapse like this. They dont in Alaska, Scandinavia,
Eastern Seaboard of the USA or Iceland do they? So what has changed? Don't tell
me that officials, in a total belief in global warming, have been laying cheaper
Mediterranean surfaces have they? These roads, which retain pockets of water are
fine for warm climates but are totally unsuited for northern climes when
retained ice would expand within the road and break it up.
If I am correct, not only would this mean that our roads would need to be
re laid in their entirety but by a much more costly and once abandoned method
too. This is why I said in January 2011, our 'Third World killer roads are to
stay'. And if I am correct, there should have been wholesale dismissals in all
our county councils too. It isn't difficult to imagine a cover up under these
circumstances; especially when valid questions are not being asked by
politicians.
Councillor Davies should really be looking much closer to home for the
culprits; it's all too easy to blame central government at times. Why and how
did this happen?
Ref: http://bit.ly/yvjSWg
Wishes
Keith Peat
Drivers' Union
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