Tommyh
Last September I complained to our council about a very large depression in the road surface right outside our house.3 Men turned up the next day & outlined the perimeter of the depression with little white lines.Nothing else happened until a week before Xmas when the same 3 men arrived in 3 different trucks & upgraded the little white line to little yellow lines.It is now february & nothing else has been done.What a way to waste money.Is your council more efficient?
7 Answers
sunnyB
Over here in England they do a similar thing, they put an orange line around the hole, and once they have done that it means you can't claim compensation. You spend all the time when driving looking for pot holes instead of looking where you are going.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
hector5559
ROMOS
I must give my council their due, they are efficient in dealing with a lot of the crappy complaints they get, if they don't deal with it within 3 working days they must pay the complainer compensation, good old Scottish politics.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
We tried that hundreds of years ago.
WE LOST.
Maybe we will be better off with independence.
jhharlan
Ducky
bustieone
Tommy, it is probably due to a "frost heave", it will reverse itself when the grown thaws! Oh thats right, you do not get frozen earth... Anyway, do not call again, it is costing you too much in taxes, next time, they will arrive with double the number of men and trucks. They are waiting until it fills with dust and the dust knows to go where the yellow circle is! Regards, Or you could fill it in with horse poop, and call them to come and clean up the toxic spill in the road, maybe they will get the lesson...
| 10 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
Bob/PKB
Perhaps a salary increase for the council would prompt them into action?
You could write them a letter, so there is something permanent on file with the do-nothings. You might want to go directly to the public works department of your city or county to see if they can get something done. I don't think our city council would deal with a road issue.
Oh, in my letter, I would ask them why they didn't refer you appropriately in the first place instead of wasting the time and money and resources. Next time the trio comes out, take some good pictures and make posters come election time about how the current council spends the taxpayers' dollars. :D
| 10 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
