Cardiff Rant

[collis]

Little rant that i'm sure some of you will agree with.
Why for the love of god does every road in cardiff have to be covered with OIL?
the roads are dangerous enough as it is without the badly maintinaed trucks/busses dropping fuel all accross the place.
What's worse was i drove through the heath hospital this morning and the entire place stunk of petrol almost as if a tanker has emptied it's load accross the road.

get over the mountain to caerphilly and it's all nice and clear...

something needs to be done about cardiff police, stop wasting time with ANPR checks and start chasing down poorly maintianed trucks/busses.

/rant

Collis

[TEL]

Deep breath......:p

[Cymraeg_Atodeg]

Petrol will not sit on the road, it will evaporate, what you are smelling Col is diesel.

There was a big spill of it on the Ceder Tree roundabout the other day.

I got to be fair to Cardiff Council, there are doing some things right, on the left turn from Trecillian Way onto Bute Road they have resurfaced the road as it used to be covered in holes.

They need to sort the Bulevard De Nantes/North Road junction still.

I am with you about the busses and trucks, everywhere I go when it has rained there are little "rainbow puddles" everywhere I go, which is not nice.

But, ride safe, take your time and enjoy it before it ices up

[barwel1992]

its the same round hear, im dodging oil and diesel at the moment on the way to collage

[metalangel]

It's in Caerphilly too, the other day the missus and I left the house and started walking, there was a huge, long rainbow-coloured trail coming out of the side street and down the main road. It STANK of diesel and it went a really long way... until it stopped, at a open-backed truck stopped (illegally) at the side of the road. I noticed several old jerrycans in the back, which would have just been rollnig around, spilling what was left in them all over the place and onto the road.

Cardiff's big problem is the state of the road surface. Before the total cretins in Cardiff Council shut St Mary Street for good, they should have left it open and taken the opportunity to resurface Westgate street as it's like driving over the freakin' Himalayas.

Lots of other streets are similarly rough, bumpy and crumbling. As we bounce over them we sing 'Cardiff rooooooads, take me hoooooome...'

[metalangel]

Maes-y-Coed Road, yesterday:

http://blog.al.com/jkennedy/2008/09/pothole.jpg

Westgate Street, this afternoon:

http://www.hascoinc.com/images/bus-in-pothole.jpg

[collis]

that made me LOL.

if you actually see a truck that has been spewing fuel/oil out all over the road and know what it is you can report them, would have been good if you had as they would have been fined and probably removed from the road.

I found these pictures of Caerphilly road btw:
http://www.longislandpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/sinkhole.jpg
http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2010/06/01/ibn_fihnq_fihnQ_19672.jpg

Sometimes when you hit a pot hole in the road i'm sure i end up in China as all the buildings look like:
http://www.caminandosinrumbo.com/china/china.jpg

Then i hit another hole in the road and all is fine.

[thefallenangel]

i thought those big holes belonged to the women of caerphilly?

[metalangel]

Thornhill Road (south of the mountain) is awful, I created my old 'road conditions' thread largely because of it. There was crappy patching over a cable near the M4 bridge, collapsing so I submitted it to the council and sure enough they went and fixed it... turning into a hump! Now you get a hell of a jolt in the car. On the bike I take it easy in case it sends you into a wobble.

But there's another pipe/cable patch at the foot of the mountain which is collapsing (and has been circled in yellow paint for... weeks now) and also the drain cover going towards the mountain which has growing potholes all around it.

I drive the same roads almost every day so I know where to position myself for most of the hazards (Caerphilly Road hump-packed bridge has some nice fally-apart bits, as does North Road) but someone unfamiliar with the area might come a cropper at this rate.

[valleyboy]

I went in to HG yesterday to pick up some odds and sods, and the A4232 was plastered in diesel as well... all round the J 33 roundabout as well...
went round it on tip toes to make sure I didnt end up on my **** !

[eviltwin]

My memory of roads when I lived in Cardiff is the endless sets of traffic lights. Sheesh, they were everywhere!

[metalangel]

The M4 was treacherous as hell just now, very glad I was in the car as it was swimming with water, huge amounts of spray, and some vicious sidewinds J29-J32.

[Cymraeg_Atodeg]

Steve, you're too soft for all this! lol

I been on the bike today, lets just say my ride home was "interesting"

[metalangel]

Bumpity bump. Anyone around here, careful out there if you try to scratch your (biker's) itch. The roads are outright collapsing in places, Cardiff was on the news as the focus of a story about it.

[Cymraeg_Atodeg]

They were actually repairing holes in the A4232 south-bound today at about 10am it has gotten so bad. Pot holes galore my friends...

[BernardBikerchick]

sucks doesn't it - come to london its even worse down here lol and you got frigging cant with a U taxi drivers too lol

[metalangel]

They were actually repairing holes in the A4232 south-bound today at about 10am it has gotten so bad. Pot holes galore my friends...

They were out yesterday just before Culverhouse, wasn't so bad.

Today, though, they were right next to the Leckwith exit. In spite of having actually put their signs down this time (right lane closed in 800... 600... etc yards) some complete frigging idiot in a grey escort decided to stay in the right lane as long as possible to overtake all those he was obviously perceiving as slowcoaches... only to find suddenly the first maintenance truck was RIGHT THERE and there were no gaps in the left lane to move into!

He slammed on his anchors and swerved around the truck at the last possible second, I was ready to stop and fully expected a large smash.

[metalangel]

HUUUUGE pothole southbound on Thornhill Road just south of the roundabout for the crematorium's exit. Surprised my tire survived it.

Also, Westgate street is getting worse (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110110-collapsed-road-eg.photoblog900.jpg)!

[collis]

HUUUUGE pothole southbound on Thornhill Road just south of the roundabout for the crematorium's exit. Surprised my tire survived it.

Also, Westgate street is getting worse (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110110-collapsed-road-eg.photoblog900.jpg)!
I think the steering on my car has gotten stuffed up by all these potholes.
It's so bad you cant drive it in a straight line anymore as it keeps swerving to one side or the other randomly and without any such warning.

At least the bike you can miss *some* of the potholes when possible

[metalangel]

There's a nice stretch of road by the Murco station in Caerphilly, on St Cenydd Road, where the entire lane has collapsed.

[Ceri JC]

Cardiff and the vale's attitude to repairing potholes has made me exceedingly grateful for learning to ride offroad and having a bike with such huge suspension travel and a 21" front wheel. I am not joking, on several roads, I literally stand up on the pegs and ride as though I am off road.

[pojic]

Looking at your profile pic Ceri, it looks like you've got the right idea. Pop up the front wheel and limit the damage to just one of your wheels!
Being a Cardiff lad myself, I couldn't agree more about the state of the roads here. Thankfully it gives me an excuse to get out of town and enjoy the unurban A roads. At least out there the risks (to some degree) are usually (and not always before I get told of the infinite amount of risks out there!) tractor crud, hot hatch drivers and ones own SV fun quotient.

[metalangel]

The yellow bulb is burnt out on one of the traffic lights at Gabalfa (southbound) by the Aneurysm Bevan pub. The person behind me almost didn't realize the lights were changing, the G4S car in the other lane didn't and completely crossed the stop line.

I don't know if I can be bothered reporting it, Cardiff council doesn't give a crap while both the potholes I reported to Caerphilly council were fixed in a matter of days AND they called me to let me know!

[-Ralph-]

Why for the love of god does every road in cardiff have to be covered with OIL?

It's full of greasy Welshmen, and they drip ;)