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Dangerous icing on Upton Road, near Junction with School Lane
Reported via desktop in the Road surface category anonymously at 08:47, Fri 3 February 2023
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 4198874.
Upton Road, near Junction with School Lane https://www.fixmystreet.com/ report/ new?longitude=-0.883750&latitude=51.795267#details
You have not resolved this issue, reported for example at 17:18, Thu 11 February 2021. With the cold weather recently, this issue came to the fore again. Your repeated failings to deal with this issue over many years are wrong.
Please deal with it. You are legally and morally liable to do so. Your head in the sand approach is unacceptable.
REPEATED REPORT
The site is dangerously icy when temperatures fall below freezing, as they are now. The ditch (now filled in and no longer visible) needs to be reinstated on the upper, North Western part of Upton Road, to take the water coming off the field above. The ditch downhill could also do with being dug out and the grips leading to it being refreshed. Currently Upton Road, and School Lane below, are extremely dangerous to cross on foot, and provide poor traction for motor vehicles.
Updates
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This has been passed to the local area technician to investigate the enquiry/issue regarding a pothole/road surface.
During winter months we receive a very high number of reports regarding potholes or a poor road surface, it's easy to assume that potholes are formed due to roads being poorly maintained but that is not usually the case. There are many factors that can cause potholes, particularly during the winter months when water seeps in through cracks in the road surface, collecting underneath and when the water freezes, it expands and forces up the road surface in through cracks in the road surface.
Our priority is always the safety of road users, so in some cases during busy periods a permanent repair is not always possible immediately. However, temporary repairs are a way to ensure the area is safe until such times as we can return to make a permanent repair.
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 08:47, Fri 3 February 2023
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We have contacted the customer separately regarding this.
State changed to: Closed
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 11:46, Fri 10 February 2023
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.