a radical re think (brits cast your votes)

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

A kaleun ! bah where is he il torpedo him or just ram him off the road be aware of my ushanka !

i work for first group essex

Cool, at least you get halfway to decent stuff to drive, instead of the second hand castoffs that first Eastern Counties gets
Oh, that reminds me, my Dads trying to flog some bendy buses, does first Essex want them?

[Kapitan]

No way ! wouldnt drive one they are dangerous and stupid busses we also get alot of cast off our youngest bus is a 51 plate so thats already 7 years old maybe 8 and they were never new when they were given to us.

a guy who works with me has served 40 years since the place opened he has never seen a new bus in all that time all have been hand me downs.

[STEED]

The real core problem we have is bloody utility company's digging the roads up left right and centre. The thing that makes me thumping mad is after years of complaining to my council they finally get around to resurfacing my road and then 72 hours latter a bloody utility company comes along and makes a bloody great big hole! A road around here with a nice new surface is like a giant magnet to these utility company's.

I even asked the one which hacked my road, "Couldn't you done this last week?" which is met by "Well yes, but." I except if emergency work needs doing is find by me but 9 times out of 10 it is not. And after these utility company's finish doing a butchers number on resurfacing the area of road they dug up.

Utility company's & Councils must get together and under stand each other but they never do, my road six months on is so full of pot holes botched resurfacing work you would swear blind your standing in no mans land of a battlefield of WW1.

[Tango589]

And after these utility company's finish doing a butchers number on resurfacing the area of road they dug up.

Don't blame us utilities, blame the half-arsed highyways maintainance contractors we use!

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Tango589

Don't blame us utilities, blame the half-arsed highyways maintainance contractors we use!

I blame you lot for digging up the roads for a laugh!

[Steel_Tomb]

In an ideal world:

1) Make all prospective drivers take their CBT and ride a 125cc for 6 months before getting into a car.
2) Fit restrictor kits to cars as they do on bikes. I had to ride with 33bhp, which at times was dangerous from the lack of grunt especially as bikes tend to accelerate out of danger instead of braking. If your daddy's rich enough you can pass your test and hop in a bloody ferarri if you have the money!
3) Increased expenditure on road maintanence, I'm sick to death of seeing roads "fixed/relayed" by simply having grit chucked over them. Not only does it make a real mess of your bodywork if your caught unawares (which happened to me when no signs were put out) especially on bikes where loose grit like that plays absolute havoc with your grip.
4) More traffic cops to actually enforced the law and get the drugged up/drunk drivers along with those who simply don't look in their mirrors etc etc instead of these god damnned "saftey" cameras which do nothing but CAUSE accidents... "Oh bugger a camera! *BRRRAAAKKKEE* SMASH someone behind you isn't paying complete attention and rams you up the backside.
5) Encourage the taking of advanced driving/riding courses, or even better incorporate them into the driving test sylabus so that ALL drivers/riders learn advanced driving techniques before they pass.
6) Toughen up the driving test, I found mine rediculously easy to pass.

Heres one that REALLY needs doing though in my opinion...

When I took my motorcycle hazard perception they showed you the same tracks used by car drivers. Your actually looking from the view that a car driver would have with a camera mounted on the dash. There are things that really make no sense...

They don't make you think about the road surface conditions, on some tracks you can see grit and rain on the roads which equates to a serious hazard on a bike, yet people aren't taught to point these out and since they aren't one of the "marks" people are passing their theory tests possibly without knowing that such things present a hazard, with possibly disasterous results on the road.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

No way ! wouldnt drive one they are dangerous and stupid busses we also get alot of cast off our youngest bus is a 51 plate so thats already 7 years old maybe 8 and they were never new when they were given to us.

a guy who works with me has served 40 years since the place opened he has never seen a new bus in all that time all have been hand me downs.

Yeah, it's the same north of you I think the usual procedure is that Londons knackered buses get transferred up to Glasgow and Edinburgh where they suffer a few years of ned abuse before being taped back together and sent elsewhere. Have you had the particular pleasure of a Dennis Dart yet? Heard they're little sods to drive

[Kapitan]

the yard i used to work at at the council depot had contractors in resurfacing the lorry park gee it was wonderful all that nice new tarmaced parking area but what about the road that goes up to it the one full of 1ft deep holes? and to make things better the left over tarmac was used to make a newer road upto a set of gates that havnt been opened in the last 25 years and theres no fesable way to access the top yard through them.

Geniuses i say !

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by STEED

I blame you lot for digging up the roads for a laugh!

Fortunately I don't work on the roads. I spend my days lurking in substations keeping away from irate members of the Great British public who are cross we have once again dug up their roads!