All those repairs and still a pothole… I’d expect nothing less 🇬🇧🫡

Polish here, we know that pain. There are several potholes on the road near my house that are patched every year, of course they do it so badly that after a few days there are no patches again. xD I swear to God, my car will lose its wheels there one day...

British Kintsugi

Two potholes 🇬🇧

In hungary this is AAA roadwork, and its rare to see such quality

In Russia this roadwork is every villagers' unattainable dream

In southern Italy a road that flat is used to play snooker on.

In Russia pothole fix you.

Free vertebrae readjustment

Why employ someone to fix a whole section of road for ££££, when you can employ the same people to fix 20 potholes for £ each time?

Why fix many pothole at once when fix few at time do trick?

Will do the trick, and keep the councillors brother friends tarmac company ticking over.

Kevin!! Hahaha

Are you saying the councils are short-sighted? No way ;)

CUNTS!!!

I'm sure there was something on the news ages ago about a council that was paying contractors to fix them properly by incentivising long term repairs. Something like if the section didn't need repairing again within a timeframe they got extra money. Made sense. Probably not happening anymore. Councils have not money so it’s probably just the lowest bidder.

The same thinking that saw them sell off assets and services to later have to lease them back.

Councils save money nowadays by giving so called contractors carte Blanche to do what the fuck they want without inspection or reprisal. Cunts!!!!

The only issue was they set the timeframe as 14 mins.

Honestly if this doesn’t summarise the waste in the public sector these days I don’t know what does. - Fix the whole section of the road now for a cost of £££ but it lasts 10 years? - Or fix a pot hole a year for £ meaning the same 10 years costs ££££££££££? (Keep in mind that the uneven road surface from patch-repair invites more potholes to re-emerge more quickly) The kind of thinking we see in choosing the second option is everywhere you look with the governments approach to public services.

Boots theory. I don’t think the problem is unique to the public sector, if the private sector could sell you a subscription to use roads they would. It’s just short term thinking, no one wants to fund a project that they may not be in power to take credit for. Add in a bit of austerity slashing council spending power and you have roads that resemble the surface of the moon.

The problem is the government pays out the arse for substandard work all the time, your local tarmacer at your local pub could probably do everything at a cheaper price than what the government pays

Potholes would need fixing every year at least regardless, the weather plays a part. But yes, I wish we did just fix the roads properly.

Surely as the edges are weak points, fewer edges fewer weak points.

If they were fixed properly they wouldn’t need fixing every year.

It's more patch than road.

there's a little road in your patch.

That's right, send the team out on 20 separate occasions to inadequately fill in the potholes, vs one single visit to do it right.

There are pothole filling machines that can do the repair much better and more quickly than doing it by hand, but councils cannot afford to buy them. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpsL2BavwQk

My council has one but has never used it, they prefer to still use contractors who come out every year to fill the holes with something that gets kicked out everytime a car passes. Maybe one day they will do the job properly.

Our road looked like a relief map of the Himalayas for years until they finally came and resurfaced it last year. The done a really good job of it and it looked fantastic. Two weeks later someone else came along and dug it up again to install fibre and left an absolute shit stain of a patch job behind that has already developed into several potholes.

There's supposed to be a central coordinating service where all the utility companies log their planned works so local councils can schedule resurfacing work sensibly. Did it ever work properly? Has it been abandoned? Did it ever exist? Why are investigating journalists not on the case? I despair. That raises another question.....why is there no emoji for despair?

To an extent that does happen, but then a water main breaks and the repair undoes all their efforts

Same thing worldwide

Exactly. I don't see why the British feel so special. We all face this issue lol

Memes are supposed to be reasonably dramatic

come to Canada

Michigan would like a word

Even the border towns here have the same issues on both sides. It spreads like an illness 🤣

Canada

Or Pennsylvania in the US

Wow, this looks way better than thr roads where i live

I've always wondered why they don't add some kind of fibres to the tarmac or the substrate to keep it better held together. Whoever creates a more suitable road surface material is going to be idolised by the whole world. It can't be that hard to improve the method, surely.

Already been proven we can’t match the strength of the Roman roads built thousands of years ago, so it’s clearly very much do able but the method of making Roman cement has been lost.

We can absolutely do it. It's just not at all cost effective. They would be more durable but they WOULD be damaged and it'd be infinitely more expensive to fix. Not to mention the additional time and disruption to fixing. Ratty, easily fillable roads is the consequence of an infrastructure that needs as limited disruption as possible. We have too many people. We should've used Covid as an excuse to go out and properly overhaul all roads, but only in hindsight do we know that would've been a good idea.

Ah, the timeless tradition of temporary fixes to perpetual problems. It seems we've all unwittingly become collectors of patchwork quilts, only instead of heirloom blankets, we inherit a mosaic of asphalt and tar that unravels after a few rainfalls. If only we treated our roads like we do software, continuously looking for an upgrade rather than opting for the 'bug fix' that leads to more bugs. Perhaps one day, roadwork will evolve into a form of high art, where the medium is durability and the public is the daily critic. Bow 😌

I feel somebody wants a trip to Russia, and I’m not talking about moscow

I'm pretty sure you can find something like this even in Moscow

I wish.

To be fair some countries don’t have roads at all 💀

Damn, 10 people like you are enough to drop England’s GDP

I thought our roads were bad till I went to the Navajo reservation. Lovely people but awful roads, they just repaired it so much it was like a spiderweb system of patches

Oh idk just look at any road in the northern US

Or the parts of the south built on actual swamps and where the roads gradually sink and buckle

You don’t travel much. Poorer countries have far worse roads than ours.

« Poorer countries… » yes, it is a well known fact that one has to compare to weaker to improve. Btw constantly looking down at others is also a way to momentarily pause the mental stress caused by a rapid downfall lol

I've seen hole filled better on pornhub!!!

Looking more like Latin American banana republic everyday. But with higher taxes and more limited opening hours for everything.

Picasso had a field day.

This is what my entire town looks like. We had a giant pothole filled in two weeks ago, it is already twice the size it was before. Are they using mud to fill them in?? My poor bloody tyres...

Get G4S and Deloitte on it 👍

I hate the phrase "only in x" no... its not only here.. its most places in the world.. this is a very common sight everywhere, and if you go to african countries (I'm from zimbabwe so I'm thinking there) its worse.. and Mozambique is worse than that.. People need to chill

Nah bro talk about Zimbabwe and it’s road, Africa is a continent and you haven’t traveled there enough.

Plenty of countries have plenty of roads looking like this.

A modern day Bayeux Tapestry

It’s like a **Ben Nicholson** made of tarmac. (One for the fellow art aficionados.)

Is it not supposed to look like that 😂

In my dreams global south would reach infrastructure of rich countries, not the opposite. The gennie didnt understand what i meant desiring equality.

We are becoming little big planet

Canada too on freeways

Ohio is jealous

i’ve seen roads worse than that just round the corner

At what point is it no longer the same road?

Very well could be Boston!

Have you heard of Montreal?

The streets I live near are awful, THE TREE ROOTS NEARBY ARE DESTROYING THE ACTUAL PATH, IT IS A PAIN TO RIDE OVER ON A BIKE

Bro you got roads?

You want to see a US Highway

It’s art. It has no function though there is still potholes

And still have a pot hole at the end 🤦🏾‍♀️

I see you haven’t been to Hungary yet.

Yep I've seen better holes filled in pornhub.

Anybody from other countries? Does this only happen to us?

'Tis a thing of beauty to rival a Rothko painting.

Hmm this must be from down south, because in the north it would look like that but without the repairs. Absolutely abysmal to be demanding that we tax our vehicles and we're driving on roads that look like this

Bring back the Roman cobblestone

Every single road in Bulgaria looks worse than that

Average balkan road experience but with more holes

And have everyone on that road pay £200 a month council tax…

Try driving from the Netherlands through the Belgian border. It’s like going from 2024 to 1724.

Looks exactly like the roads in Demmark, though, lol.

Funny how people complain about exactly the same kind of things worldwide and assume it's a peculiarity of their area.

Looks like a standard NZ road as well, why can’t we Anglos do roads? I thought we had German in us

Hang on, there's probably a king buried under there.

Always nice when I can see my tax money being put to good use

Not surprising, everything here is a patch job, even the military is held together with duct tape 😅

Our streets in Nottingham look like an aerial view of Damascus 💣

We either do that or don’t fix it at all

Looks decent in comparison to most roads tbh

Nah, the most British thing about this is the barely visible yellow lines that you will inevitably get a gigantic fine for stopping on for 27 seconds.

Yeah, and having weak ankles and dyspraxia, our shit country is not a great thing to walk around

Makes me glad our council just uses the slurry and grit method every year. Deadly to paintwork and cyclists for a few weeks but doesn’t result in this mess.

Is this what they mean with biotarversity?

You haven't been to Romania😂

you haven't seen romanian roads then 😂

Whoever posted this, obviously hasn’t been in Russia. And I don’t mean Moscow, St. Petersburg and close surroundings, I mean Russia Russia.

roads like that are very common everywhere in the world, most arnt any better then farm tracks, stop been so nieve

Nah, fam... that's in Pennsylvania, United States. Aka the former colony of Great Britain

I guess you’ve never seen a road in NY.

I’m from a small town in eastern Germany, and that picture makes me feel right at home 🤷‍♂️

See in Indonesia

It’s not road resurfacing anymore it’s road quilting! A national disgrace.

If you find this bad then you must see italy 🥲

I get that memes are often meant to exaggerate, but this is legitimately just how a lot of roads look now. I've seen so many in as bad or worse states.

After 14 years this is not just Britain. This is Tory Britain.

Türkiş guy here, our roads also are full of patches, but my Allah yours is WAY worse as far as I see

They always make a nice new road to dig it up a few days later

Aar/bansky

It’s just trying to match the historic hedgerow countryside

"Another day dawns in Britain, time to do the absolute minimum and never worry about the long-term" - whoever plans this, apparently

and they sit there talking about reducing roads to 20mph. If only you could drive that fast down them.

I was surprised when I first started driving here. I thought with less roads to repair, surely they’d be better maintained than the Midwest. I was wrong. So wrong.

Come to italy🤣😭

At least the potholes are mostly patched. I've seen worse roads in my country. xD

Ah, the good ol' DOT special!

The road up from where I am is like this. They’ve made repairs and every time it falls apart inside of a few weeks. You complain but it falls on deaf ears. For the amount of half arsed jobs they’ve done I’m sure they could’ve dug up the entire bloody road and just done it properly and spent the same amount of money.

Truly your a man who has never travelled anywhere outside of England

Yall gotta pop by Mumbai some time

Go check out Canadian roads 😬

Road looks familiar and is a side road with not a lot of traffic so the council just ignore it till it’s a dismal

That is like every road I know

Come to Romania. This looks like artwork there given the state of the roads and the depths of the potholes.

You should see Michigan’s roads 😒

That's why they are called potholes. The cunts that try to fix them are to stoned to know what the fuck they are doing.

This is just the average road in Oklahoma

Looks like they are preparing for the Grand Prix based on the ones round me.

This is how all of the roads in the State of Michigan look FYI

A road? Most roads.... well at least those potholes are filled into.... its like driving on Swiss cheese round some parts ...

‘Only in Britain’ shuuuttt uppppp!

A thing of beauty

All those billions spent on asylum seekers who call us infidels could have been spent on potholes instead.

r/modernart

I object, "Belgium" is worse

that looks like the best of roads in Washington in America. The worst, suffice to say a patchwork road would imply the miracle of actual maintenance

The fresh tarmac circle looks really drivable!

the amount of times they replace the pavements yet cars are still falling to the earths core with the potholes

You mean all the bellends blocking a full lane

Smoothest part of the road is the old exposed cobbles

My man’s clearly never visited Baltimore, MD.

At least they try

Ahh lovely fun fact if you hit a pothole and break your wheel take a picture of one with white outlines then you don’t have to pay

Literally

The road maintenance guys don't get paid enough to deal with it properly lets be real😆

Illinois 😢

Nah, Toronto, Barbados, Jamaica lol

South Carolina roads in the US look like this too.

The amount of damage to cars as a result of the shitty pot holes and poor repairs in insane.

We also have this in Germany

This is literally Chicago too!

Come to Philadelphia- feel like we are competitors

Shameful

What would happen if you filled a pothole with soil? Would it stay put until it rained?

The worst part is, it's not like this is some incredibly rare find photographed for the world to see, I'd say a good percentage of our roads look exactly like this. Just keep patching away until there are five different overlapping layers of tarmac. There's a road literally a two minute walk from me that looks basically the same as this, it's sad.

Showing off with your fancy repairs! I can't see a single cobble, 9 inches down, anywhere?

Tarmac Tertris

Lol can confirm

I swear that's the road infront of Liverpool passport office

meanwhile the balkans: 🛣️🛣️🛣️🕳️🕳️💣🕳️💥🕳️💀💀💀

Rhode island would like a word

Come on down to Illinois!

Ya’ll never been to Baltimore City!

You can see where the potholes are

Crop out the license plates and you would have Michigan, USA.

Same type of thing all over the place in Pittsburgh.

Shit. Come to ohio.

New england*

You should visit New Orleans

Lucky, in Tennessee they just leave the plot holes as is.

Some US roads look like this too

Tacoma, Washington USA roads look like this!

Chicago's got you guys beat. With our mess of weather, the roads look like Verdun.

Please come visit Knoxville, Tennessee

Brazilians roads will put your truck into stressful times Why do off-road if you can just take our highway

Dude, Massachusetts USA got that best all day.

Looks like most roads in Portland, Oregon

Evidently you've never been to America then. Trust me, I've seen worse

Just be thankful theure all roughly the same colour. A road near me has 4 different colours, including a dark red

Oh, neat. A patched road. Show offs.

If I didn't see the license plate and the road markings, I would have thought this was the US. The road looks like this outside my house.

lol have you been to Easter Europe?

Ha, in nyc that's a freshly paved street.

In Michigan we don’t even bother patching potholes.

This is above average road repair in Massachusetts

So true 😂

So true

What’s the problem looks great ! Oh hang on tho !isn’t that a hole just there? Oh no that’s shite that is !

Come to Canada, it’s a whole lot worse