Off Topic What grinds your gears

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TIGERSCAVE said:
Driven the thick end of 500 miles the last 2 days and as I sat in traffic on motorways a thought came to mind... A) how the **** has one bridge over the A1 near Wentrbridge taken the best part of 2 and a half years to repair, when it would surely have been quicker, less expensive and have a lesser effect economically to thiose stuck day after day there to demolish the ****ing thing and replace it with one that wouldn't go tits..... and b) what sort of money is being spent on replacing all the central barriers up and down the country with the concrete versions. Who is getting the back handers and what effect has that had economically, loss of earnings etc. Surely, when we are cash strapped, spending money on road infrastructure and replacing central barriers has to go on the back burner... I'm sure people do hit them but dont they still do their job...?
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I don’t know anything about the concrete central barriers…other than they are popping up everywhere, but the old Armco (?) metal ones were designed to give and gradually return you to the driving lane (with a ****ed up car, but at least safer for you)
How are the new ones designed to work?

EDIT - They’re Jersey barriers apparently (although aren’t made of wool) and last longer than metal ones.
https://www.clearway.co.uk/news/what-is-a-jersey-barrier/
 
TIGERSCAVE said:
Driven the thick end of 500 miles the last 2 days and as I sat in traffic on motorways a thought came to mind... A) how the **** has one bridge over the A1 near Wentrbridge taken the best part of 2 and a half years to repair, when it would surely have been quicker, less expensive and have a lesser effect economically to thiose stuck day after day there to demolish the ****ing thing and replace it with one that wouldn't go tits..... and b) what sort of money is being spent on replacing all the central barriers up and down the country with the concrete versions. Who is getting the back handers and what effect has that had economically, loss of earnings etc. Surely, when we are cash strapped, spending money on road infrastructure and replacing central barriers has to go on the back burner... I'm sure people do hit them but dont they still do their job...?
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The country is bust, too much waste and not enough tax being paid/collected.

On the M1 yesterday, potholes all over, the joins of tarmac splitting open, debris all over, next to the central barrier full of accumulated grit and gravel and now growing grass and weeds, and probably worse of all puddles of water because of subsidence or more likely the surface not laid properly.

Oh I forgot using what was the hard shoulder as a live lane and ****s who sit in the 3rd of 4 lanes, the standard of driving these days is appalling
 
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I wonder how we'd cope in this country now if we had a significant amount of snow ?

Everything would just grind to a halt wouldn't it
 
I woke up this morning and opened my bedroom curtains to our beautiful garden covered in snow and the snow still coming down. With the black and white striped gable ends it looked like a Christmas card setting.
Wish I could upload the photos I took to this site, I got some beautiful shots.
 
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rovertiger said:
I woke up this morning and opened my bedroom curtains to our beautiful garden covered in snow and the snow still coming down. With the black and white striped gable ends it looked like a Christmas card setting.
Wish I could upload the photos I took to this site, I got some beautiful shots.
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How nice of you to paint the gable ends in black and white stripes.
 
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balkan tiger said:
The country is bust, too much waste and not enough tax being paid/collected.

On the M1 yesterday, potholes all over, the joins of tarmac splitting open, debris all over, next to the central barrier full of accumulated grit and gravel and now growing grass and weeds, and probably worse of all puddles of water because of subsidence or more likely the surface not laid properly.

Oh I forgot using what was the hard shoulder as a live lane and ****s who sit in the 3rd of 4 lanes, the standard of driving these days is appalling
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Agree, country is 'bust', there is far far too much waste .....but as for not enough tax being paid / collected? At some point we have to ask what is all the tax that is collected being collected being spent on? We can't just continue to raise more tax and add taxes on even more things.

We are taxed when we earn, taxed when we spend, when we save and when we die. A start would be to massively simplify.
 
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