Road repairs such a mess

3:55pm Wednesday 15th August 2012 in Letters

WHAT a mess they have made of the so-called repairs to our roads.

It’s now worse than ever. There are grey stones that haven’t been pressed into the tarmac flying everywhere, making a real mess on the pavements. People are carrying these loose stones into their homes and making a real mess everywhere. It must ruin car tyres; you can hear the grating of the tyres as cars go past.

I hope they come back and finish the job properly, but as usual it all falls on deaf ears and they are making Newport an even worse place to live in.

Mrs A Evans, Albert Avenue, Newport

Comments(3)

Owain Vaughan says...
5:57pm Wed 15 Aug 12

I take it you've never seen a road with surface dressing before? It is absolutely normal to have loose stones and over time they will be removed. You do remember what the pot-holed surface if Albert Avenue uses to look like don't you? Your hyperbolic statement that this somehow makes Newport an "even worse place to live in" is hilarious!

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Bommaz says...
7:07am Thu 16 Aug 12

I have to agree with Owain, also the contractors did put a leaflet through the doors explaining how the job would be carried out and how any problems with tar/stones could be dealt with which was very helpful.
Not very helpful were a few residents who would not move cars so that the sweepers could clean the gutters of stones along with the long term parkers and visitors to Maindee.
Now we have a new surface lets have decent residents parking and traffic calming around the junction with maindee parade before there is a serious accident.

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Owain Vaughan says...
2:24pm Thu 16 Aug 12

By the way, apologies for the misspellings in the first post. That's iPhone auto-correct for you!

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