Road resurfacing, Amey & Streets Ahead

We've all seen how well such repairs work.

A few months of buses running over them, a bit of rain and a single frost and the pothole is back again.

Is it to the contract specification is the question you should be asking.

 

Modern repair materials mean that nowadays you don't tend to see the inlaid patches like you used to.

 

With modern repair materials, they do just pour ready mixed "tarmac" (which is actually a special material purpose made for pothole repairs) into the hole and tamp it down. They can do these repairs with what they term "mobile" traffic management (which is basically that they park the truck in front of the pothole. The truck has a keep right / left arrow on the back and they work in front of the truck.

 

Traffic management (lots of cones and signs, temporary lights, diversions, only being able to work out of peak times / overnight / weekends etc) is the major cost item in a lot of small highway repairs, so it's much less costly to use the modern patch repairs and mobile traffic management.

 

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Amey's contract with their surfacing sub contractor had reached it's end and they have been procuring a new one. Hence not a lot of recent activity.

Unfortunately what the contract specifies is deemed by SCC and Labour councillors to be 'commercially sensitive' so the people of Sheffield have no way to know if the work is as specified.

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Won't amey be in breach of contract by the end of this year? Perhaps they can be ditched and the highly unpopular tree cutting program can be cancelled.

I saw a councillor saying on twitter that they need to get the tree programme finished this year to prevent additional costs to the council. So somehow it looks like they have agreed a contract where the additional costs of Amey failing to fulfil the contract are borne by tax payers.

Amey's contract with their surfacing sub contractor had reached it's end and they have been procuring a new one. Hence not a lot of recent activity.

A multi-billion pound contract and they let their surfacing sub contract (i.e a fundamental and essential element) end before ensuring a new one was in place?

Really ?

I know you are the fake-news council mouthpiece but this is going too far.

Is it well done though, or did they just tip some tarmac into the hole?

 

If potholes are appearing already it's a bad sign for the quality of work IMO.

Only driven over it twice but so far so good

A multi-billion pound contract and they let their surfacing sub contract (i.e a fundamental and essential element) end before ensuring a new one was in place?

 

Really ?

 

I know you are the fake-news council mouthpiece but this is going too far.

Yes, really.

That's what I was told by people who certainly should know.

It seems quite clear that the council are hiding the contract from the public because it's incredibly badly negotiated and everything is in the favour of Amey.

They can be late, they can do things badly, they can cut down trees and ignore the more costly options to preserve them, and the council can do nothing. Incompetence.

It seems quite clear that the council are hiding the contract from the public because it's incredibly badly negotiated and everything is in the favour of Amey.

They can be late, they can do things badly, they can cut down trees and ignore the more costly options to preserve them, and the council can do nothing. Incompetence.

You couldn't be more wrong Cyclone.AMEY are getting fined left right and centre by the council.

Any news on this rumour? Not seen much tarmacing of carriageways done since the end of July...

 

...wonder why ��

All behind schedule due to the tree protests - the programme is a complete streetscape refresh - new road surface, pavements, street lights and trees (where existing trees are either unsafe in themself or have roots that are likely to damage road/pavement.

You couldn't be more wrong Cyclone.AMEY are getting fined left right and centre by the council.

Any proof of this , please

Any proof of this , please

Confidential. The go-to-phrase for this whole Amey debacle.

Confidential. The go-to-phrase for this whole Amey debacle.

It's really not a debacle.

The streets, roads and lighting are massively improved - everyone can see that.

The trees aren't improved, the street resurfacing seems to have stopped unexpectedly and there are unconfirmed reports about the poor quality of some of the work causing potholes to appear already.

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You couldn't be more wrong Cyclone.AMEY are getting fined left right and centre by the council.

Evidence? (more words)

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All behind schedule due to the tree protests - the programme is a complete streetscape refresh - new road surface, pavements, street lights and trees (where existing trees are either unsafe in themself or have roots that are likely to damage road/pavement.

Protests haven't delayed the road resurfacing, it's simply stopped.