Don’t get me wrong – there ARE competent Civil Servants who do excellent completed staff work. Unfortunately these people tend to be few in number and grossly overworked as a result of having to carry a lot of incompetent, lazy staffers, and their equally lazy managers.
County Council Highways Depts have decision making responsibility for all the areas about which you complain but most have suffered due to Government budget cuts – forcing into retirement those higher paid experienced staff who knew their jobs, and replacing them with cheaper inexperienced new hires. Quick ineffective fixes are the order of the day.
If you wonder why the roads seem to keep getting huge potholes in the same place, and far more than they ever did in the past, perhaps it is time to consider if the Highways Dept have any idea what they are doing. Just maybe it is because they are merely slinging in a quick temporary filler of tarmac instead of doing a proper job of cutting out and possibly installing sub-surface drainage. A criminal waste of money. (sorry I’ve ranted enough about Highways Depts).
