Cheapskate Cambs County Council "Resurfacing"

This is an absolute disgrace. Loads of roads have been absolutely ruined by Cambs CC "resurfacing" them by spraying tar and gravel in the last couple of weeks. They do it because it's dirt cheap and nobody ever complains - they can do miles in a day or two but it results in a surface that's absolute sh@t and will stay that way for years. They rely on road users to complete the job of creating a consolidated surface and in the meantime it's like riding off-road on loose gravel - it's dangerous, the chips damage your bike, and it's painfully slow and uncomfortable. They just spray over all the existing potholes and cracks which appear again in days. Their bloody machinery with big tyres leaves tread marks in the surface - it's cr@p. I'm going to write to the highways dept at CCC - it won't do any good apart from letting steam off but if a few write then they might begin to take some notice. I am going to point off that if I come off my bike or motorbike as a result of this I am going to sue them - the surface is not fit for purpose.

Roads done recently include St Neots past the rugby club, Abbotsley on the TT course, down the hill from Stonely to Pertenhall (really scary especially since drifts of chippings have collected at the bottom of the hill), Bushmead going south, the road from the Perry road down to Grafham, from St Neots through the Offords and many more.

Hi Gareth, good to see you on-line. They are supposed to come along at least once and possibly several times after a couple of weeks with a sweeper to collect the loose chippings and hopefully leave a properly consolidated surface. All the roads that I have noticed being ruined are in Cambs and I don't think it's a HDC thing. It's a disgusting, shoddy process but it's really cheap and that's why most councils use it.