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Violent undulations of road surface

Reported via desktop in the Roads/highways category anonymously at 13:42, Tue 11 October 2022

Sent to Norfolk County Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 3882594.

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Lady Drove, Downham Market. Near the 40MPH speed limit signs at the A1122 end of Lady Drove.

NCC recently patched some seriously large potholes in this area, the work took a day.

Even though there was a three day road closure in place, nothing was done about the undulations at the same location.

It is very difficult to illustrate these defects in a photograph, but there are essentially three problem areas, one at each end of the patched section and another, which seems to be developing, along a part of its length.

The three day road closure order suggested that these defects were also to be repaired, but so far they remain an hazard.

Updates

  • NCC ref: ENQ-591697-V5P3T2

    NCC comments:

    Your enquiry ENQ-591697-V5P3T2 received on 13/10/2022 10:31:07 regarding Highways Maintenance: Highway Damage (excluding potholes) has been updated.

    New Status: This problem has already been reported and action identified to resolve the issue.....

    Any additional comments the Highways Officer has made relating to this enquiry will be displayed below:

    Patching done to make safe until scheme can be arranged. drought issues have caused lots of problems all across the fen roads Defect has already been identified and prioritised for repair

    Posted anonymously at 16:36, Tue 18 October 2022

  • Nothing has been done about this defect.

    Please note that the defect was there long before the dry summer of 2022 and had been reported several times beforehand.

    Posted anonymously at 15:32, Tue 8 November 2022
    Still open, via questionnaire

  • 22 11 22. The area was under investigation today by two chaps from NCC Highways Laboratory. They have taken core samples to study the underlying structure. In discussion they agreed that the road is not up to the job of the number of HGVs that use it every day, and that this area needs a rebuild, but will probably not get it due to the cost. They are also aware that other parts of this road are slowly sliding into the ditches on each side. Sounds like a classic case of the guys in the real world being let down by pen-pushing, target driven managers and accountants!

    Posted anonymously at 02:43, Thu 24 November 2022

  • Still it remains unaddressed.

    Posted anonymously at 19:53, Tue 6 December 2022
    Still open, via questionnaire

  • 04 01 23. Still the same.

    Posted anonymously at 03:09, Wed 4 January 2023
    Still open, via questionnaire

  • 01 02 23. Still nothing has been done about this.

    Posted anonymously at 23:33, Wed 1 February 2023
    Still open, via questionnaire

  • Still the same......

    Posted anonymously at 13:33, Wed 8 March 2023
    Still open, via questionnaire

  • Still nothing (unless you count it getting even worse that is).

    Posted anonymously at 16:19, Sat 25 March 2023

  • The only change so far is that the road is getting worse by the week.

    Posted anonymously at 16:34, Thu 6 April 2023
    Still open, via questionnaire

  • Still open, via questionnaire, 19:19, Fri 5 May 2023

  • Still being ignored by NCC

    Posted anonymously at 19:19, Fri 5 May 2023

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