A338 to Poole - LOOSE CHIPPINGS WARNING!

[jonnydangerous]

Anyone going to Poole tomorrow should beware going on the A338 to Downton from Salisbury, the IDIOTS in charge have decided to waste even more tax payers money on loose chippings ( i HATE loose chippings)....
beware! keep that bike upright and stone chip free.....

[R1chie]

Why do they insist on sticking with those loose chippings?

They do next to nothing apart from damaging cars, making bikes unstable and trying to impale bikers & cyclists with razor sharp stones.

An absolute waste of money. Does anyone know of a road that these chippings have actually improved? I certainly don't. Winds me up a treat it does.

[jonnydangerous]

They throw them on a roughly scraped road, and expect us to push them into the top layer! all that happens is trucks come along and push them in, making grooves as bad as before....
then the first frost comes along and it all peels away anyway!
fooooookin waste of money!

[Dabz]

that does my head in - like has been said above all it achieves is covering cars with tar spots and stone chips, and as I've said in another thread..he cars bedin two tyre track and bikes get stuck on the loose middle of the lane. Dont see why we can't have proper road surfaces like in other countries instead of this crap!

[jonnydangerous]

no word filter on the word C R A P ????......

[R1chie]

Don't start with the word filter again for the love of all things northern ;D

[redken1]

Many years ago whilst riding my K2 750 Honda I was negotiating a bend when I hit those chippings mid-corner. Managed to stay on the bike, but I was one irrate biker. The local council informed me that a sign was in place giving ample warning (don't know where it went). If I wanted to slide about on my bike I'd take up ice speedway. Hate those chippings. Rant over.

[Scotty]

That's the British way - as cheap and nasty as possible > you'd think that they'd spend a little more of the tens of billions that they make from road users in fuel duty, VAT, car tax and vehicle excise duty on the roads, but the roads only see a small fraction of all that booty, the rest goes to fund benefit scroungers, merchant banks, George W Bush's f*cking war, and bloody students! > > > At least none of it goes on paying England's football team..
And another thing....

[pilninggas]

just to add to that

A37 at Shepton Mallett, road has been dressed with chippings.

A38 at Puriton (just north of Bridgwater) - A long stretch of loose stuff.

go steady out there folks.

[Scotty]

And the A338 from Great Shefford towards J14 of the M4 > > > (as those heading back that way after the Ace Cafe run last weekend may have noticed)