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Potholes transformed by the pothole gardener
Potholes transformed by the pothole gardener
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As motorists, nothing riles us more than a nice big pothole…
‘What does the council think it’s playing at?’ ‘I pay my taxes and I have to drive on roads like this!’ ‘Our roads are the worst in Europe!’ A good rant about the shoddy and deteriorating state of the roads is part of our birthright as British citizens.
But while the rest of us clench our fists and bristle with anger as our car wheel clangs into yet another tarmac crater, one man sees only opportunity. Steve Wheen is the pothole gardener, a green-fingered crusader who made it his mission to turn crumbling fissures in roads and pavements into tiny oases of natural beauty.
In this gallery we bring you Steve Wheen’s incredible pothole gardens. Don’t forget to tell us which one your favourite is…
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16/11/2012 21:50
16/11/2012 17:20
17/11/2012 01:19
I have noticed many councils now using this cheep liquid tarmac that just pours out and gets spread over the existing surface, this enabables them to resurface a road in just hrs. Then it takes just hrs for the S**t to disintegrate.A road near me has had this treatment four times in 2yrs! why not just do it proper in the 1st place an the road would easily last 5-10 yrs!.. On Another point Before the uk became speed bump fiend's just think how many times in a year your car would have normally travelled over such obsticals! This must increase the wear and ageing of our cars tenfold. This Iinfuriates me!!
16/11/2012 17:41
16/11/2012 19:16
16/11/2012 17:28
18/11/2012 14:01
17/11/2012 18:29
18/11/2012 17:55
How long before some health and safety local council killjoy, sense of humourless, ****, attempts to persecute ( or prosecute) Steve Wheen? Which will cost more than filling the potholes.
But then is that what our dictatorial, self serving councils are there for.
Strange isnt it, how we make the mistake of thinking these incompetent and wasteful imbeciles are elected or employed to do our bidding. We should understand that any form of official is only there to line their pockets with self imposed extortionate wages and immoral legitimized expenses, and if we belittle them or irritate, they will prosecute with the revenge only usually encountered in the school playground.
But then is that what our dictatorial, self serving councils are there for.
Strange isnt it, how we make the mistake of thinking these incompetent and wasteful imbeciles are elected or employed to do our bidding. We should understand that any form of official is only there to line their pockets with self imposed extortionate wages and immoral legitimized expenses, and if we belittle them or irritate, they will prosecute with the revenge only usually encountered in the school playground.
18/11/2012 16:54
18/11/2012 16:34
18/11/2012 19:17
18/11/2012 16:55
18/11/2012 15:55
18/11/2012 15:30
18/11/2012 19:36
I'm absolutely sick of Potholes in this country!
The amount of wasted time and money with Diversions constantly in my town and the roads are still in a state!! We should all start invoicing the government for every time a pothole damages our cars! They are extremely dangerous yet nothing gets done about them.
Oh sorry, that's a lie, near to where i live there is a massive one on a very busy road so what they've done is paint a little white box around it (Like that's going to help)
Unless you know it's there like I now do you're going to hit it as it's straight off a roundabout!!
18/11/2012 16:33
01/12/2012 17:51
The answer to repairing the ever increasing number of pot holes lies in the ever increasing number of speed humps.
Quantify the ammount of humps now calculate the ammount of raw materials used along with man power to make such ridiculous humps and thats were its all going on stupid humps that do nothing for speeding traffic as they straddle the humps thus not needing to slow down.
They just did a street round the corner from me littered with pot holes, and all they did was build speed humps an not fix the pot holes.
I watched them clear away their left overs of raw materials only to leave the street with nice new shinny speed humps and lots of old ever increasing in size pot holes it just doesn't add up the left overs would have been better used for filling holes but I bet that lot got dumped.
19/11/2012 00:04
15/03/2013 14:34
rite here we go / the roads over here are crap / why .. they get chaep crap cos they want to pocket the chang . we pay road tax thats good if it went on the roads . look how many none british trucks are on our roads 24/7 if you look then you will be shocked . we go over there we have to pay there tolls so we should make them pay b4 they leave the docks or trains to use our roads look how much we will get to do the roads . they should be charged per day and if they go over then they leave there over wieght trucks here till they paid in full even the intrest should be added / and make them empty there tanks and buy our fule aswell / STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
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