General Chat

here in UK. Two photos in Daily Mxxl today - before and after. One shows a road badly damaged by quake/tsunami - one part of road looks about 4-5' higher than the rest - photo taken 6 days later - beautifully repaired and newly laid road (not a patch in sight) and we have potholes for years!!!

I saw that too. Fantastic. Takes a week to fill a few potholes around here.

Regards

Vera

Maybe...........just maybe..........
they do things differently over there?

our lott built a road.........that suffered subsidence so that it was closed before it opened........now they've decide it needs piling!!!

durr in the fens? of course it needs decent foundations......but let's skimp on that eh?

talk about jerry builders.............ooops maybe not ,thats a slur on the jerries.......

Bob

during the ww2 runways were built that are still in use.........

There is a highway project here called "Transmission Gully". Various governments have been putting off doing it for years and years and finally it has been approve and is going through various permits and such now and will take probably 10 years to construct due to terrain it has to go through etc.

Funnilly enough, during WW2, the Americans offered to build the "Transmission Gully" highway free of charge and the government of the day turned them down.

So now we are stuck with a highway that can't cope with the amount of traffic using it every day and major traffic delays all the time.

We need the Japanese road builders here too, they would make a better job that the rubbish we have to put up with.


Annie

Our Highway Number 1 has been closed at Morwell for a month now because of subsidence caused by heavy rain into the old Morwell Open Cut Mine.
And they reckon it will be closed for months more! And this is Australia's Number One road!


xxxxxx mick

One road in our town has just had new tarmacadam down the centre so it looks like a runway. Initially it was said to be done for cost cutting purposes but after so much publicity the powers that be now say it was a mistake and that they are going to tar and pebble the remainder where the cars park all the time.
If the Japanese can make roads so quickly and efficiently its a pity that they aren't responsible for the contracts to fill in the potholes over here.-jl

We don,t have roads, just potholes with bits of tarmac around.Saw in the Mail on Sunday Picture of Japanese road builders, looking at our repairers.The caption was Well we have many more Tea Cerimonies than you do.

How very true Merlin.