Petition to stop Councils top dressing roads.
 

I urge you all to sign... always getting car damaged by this total BS crap,
Every time I have to drive over it I end up with a new chip on the car somewhere or someone traveling in the opposite direction showers you in sh1t!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/127577

With you 100% on this!

Not only the gravel causing stone-chips though, its the fact that they have to re-do it (especially in corners) every few years and each time it adds another half inch on the road surface. There's loads of places round Burgess Hill where all the drains/man-hole covers are about 2 inches lower than the road surface now :rant:

Chip your paint and knacker your suspension in one go! :martyn:

Just signed, ironically I was going along the A22 East Hoathly by-pass which has just been surfaced in this crap, had a blob eye wagon behind me who wanted to show me how fast he could go, resulted in an overtake showering me with small stones from the middle of the road.

It's bad enough we are expected to use our cars to flatten it all down!

My trip to work now has three sections of road that have just been done, and with 285 section tyres on the rear of the Merc makes for some stone spraying. 2 alloys at the rear already chipped in multiple places and only had them a week!

Signed. I'm still able to as a UK citizen thank-fully, but I too get fed up with it when I drive back each time. I never hear rattles from my car until the moment I set down at Dover.

I'm pretty certain over here on the continent that in many countries the way the UK chips roads as actually illegal - for very obvious reasons. I've definitely never seen them used here in Luxembourg and that they always pull up the roads properly before re-laying them.

Signed ;-)

Done and put on Facebook

9, 262 when I signed :doubleup:

+1 :doubleup:

Signed. Here in France they never top dress roads. They appear to have a set programme to re surface roads on a 3 year cycle, with the work carried out in July and August, result no potholes.

this cant come soon enough!!! good call..:doubleup:

Done - 10,014 so far.

Hate this road surface they done loads off roads round me with and just keep finding more stone chips!! Feel sorry for people who live on the roads that have been done and have to park there cars on the side of the road

Done. After parking in the nursery car park to drop Ellie off in the mornings, I'm beyond worrying about a few little stone chips, but that gravel crud is dangerous (both when it's laid and when it starts to wear away on the corners after 6 months!) and a waste of money.

I wonder how much it costs to 'dress' the roads in that stuff compared to re-laying the roads properly (especially once you include all the compensation claims for bent alloys, wrecked suspension and busted tyres from the sunken drains 'surface dressing' leaves behind).

Oh for crying out loud, can you believe this crap?

Vote these morons out people, they really have no clue :doubledown:

yeah saw the reply when it came out and thought, have you actually read the petition?