Council data on road conditions & maintenance
Posted by Chris Richards on 22/04/2010 6 comments
It would be useful to see data held by councils on road conditions & maintenance schedules e.g. fixing pot-holes. This would let people know when they could expect local roads to be fixed, help them plan journeys and identify authorities with particularly good/bad roads.
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http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/ sponsored by CTC has some of this already, but picking up on council performance would be good.
Won't work
Sorry, each highway authority has its own schedule of road inspections based on the road hierarchy, so there would be way too much information to digest. Also, maintenance is largelyaffected by budget availability and not a set for repair, so there is no comparability. Lastly, repairs are scheduled by need rather than anything else, so two potholes on the same road would get repaired in different times depending on their size/danger to the travelling public.
There is national data on road conditions which has been used in Transport Plans for the last x years, but I always found the measures to be meaningless and subject to interpretation.
Sorry!
Could work
Each highway authority does have it's own routine inspection programme. However, if a pothole is a hazard to road users then it must be inspected within a few hours of notification. What would be useful is making the reported emergencies available through the Councils own website. So instead of the Council displaying what it thinks the customer or service user wants, we can see what the state of a given road actually is. We can then pressurise our Councillors to react to what we, the paymaster, want.
This could be done by linking their Roads Maintenace software to their website to provide real-time searchable reports.
Good plan, also...
It'd be nice to see what, if anything, councils do to try and prevent potholes occurring or re-occurring.
We should also be able to comment/rate the quality of repair - I think sometimes roads are made worse with umpteen little patches.
road conditions...
Councils do try to reduce the number of potholes on our roads. It's not the average car user that destroys the roads surfgace it's heavy goods vehicles.
Council road maintenance currently allows about 1% of the roads network to be re-surfaced each year. If we could make the repairs last 100 years...
The hardest wearing road surface is concrete. The down side of this is; its hard on tyres, noisey, wrecks suspensions and costs a fortune to repair if damaged by say fire !