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This is how road repairs should be done (from Sky News)


"The Joban Expressway was torn apart when the quake hit at Naka, north of Tokyo - but six days later, repairs make it look as if the 5ft-wide crack was never there"

Meanwhile in the UK, it takes months to fill gaping potholes - if done at all

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Excuse my cycnicism but the colour and texture of the foliage to the right of the carriageway seems to have changed considerably in just six days!

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A lot of it has been cleared away in the work.

Look at the foliage on the OTHER side of the road!

We KNOW how to do it, we just lack the will and the funding!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtroNbBBK8&

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That is quite amazing ! I guess they have it all worked out having had (sadly) so much experience, again good infrastructure because it happens with such frequency.
If you look to the trees on the left, they are still without much foliage implying winter months, and that remains so. (As also pointed out by EarnestM).

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It's more due to the fact that the two images were taken under different lighting conditions, possibly with different cameras. Look at the green on the roadsigns.

Those nearest bushes are actually on part of the bank which has slipped - I presume that in reinstating the bank, the first bushes had to go...

The French are pretty good at major road resurfacing works.

They will descend on a short stretch of road with 10 - 15 tarmac laying machines, and dozens of support vehicles, and resurface and reline several kilometres of major road in just a couple of days.
The downside is that sometimes, the entire road will be completely closed - no messing about with contraflows or temporary lights... but if the job gets done that quick, it is only a minor problem to take a diversion for quite a few miles - just for a day or two.

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I was holidaying in Germany over twenty years ago now, the one morning as we left our hotel for the day, road workers began to arrive on the street where our hotel was. When we returned at about 5PM, the entire road had been relaid and not a worker or sign of, remained, just nice new tarmac.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Was watching this video a few months back - my current employer and one of thier subsidery co's are the contractors on this video.

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Gordon Brown saying I got the country into it's current economic mess so I'll get us out of it is the same as Bomber Harris nipping over to Dresden and offering to repair a few windows.

Chaos, panic and disorder - my work here is done.

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The Japanese have the secret of high productivity though, which is largely lacking in this country. I believe the term is "work ethic".

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Work ethic doesn't come into it.
Very few councils now have the ability to lay complete new road surfaces, they use private contractors.
The job needs to be tendered for, and that includes inviting from out the country.
When all that has finished the winning contractor then has to find the other private contractors to do the job......and the infra=structure works such as fencing, signs, bridges and other works such as grassing, trees etc.
The initial tender will include such things as work safety/welfare etc....for workers and public. It ain't cheap.
The A421 from M1J13 to Bedford was done in 18 months....from start to finish.....11 miles of brand new dual carriageway.
The planning has taken over 20 years. The bypass around the town still needs a final 5 mile stretch....which may finally be started soon after objections and refusal to sell land have been overcome.
Time for complete bypass ?
Over 50 years.
Laying a few miles of replacement tarmac takes a few days....the planning takes months.
The contractors are there, they're willing, able and enthusiastic.
The planning is incompetent.
The money is the same....some small contractors can expect to wait 9 months to get paid......who the hell can afford to wait 9 months ?

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56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing