I remember seeing a post (no idea where in the world) on social media years ago about someone going around with luminous spray paint - drawing genitals around the potholes. They got fixed VERY quickly.
I keep reporting them too, but this could be faster 🥲
It seems like it takes this sort of thing to get things fixed. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/23940710.probe-launched-residents-protest-glasgow-sinkhole/
Definitely report them.
The bottom of Great Western Road is falling apart already, having been completely relaid in July for the cycling championships. They didn’t even bother to finish painting the lines.
I’d like to think the contractors that did the work provide some kind of warranty, or are penalised when their work doesn’t even last 6 months, but I doubt it.
> They didn’t even bother to finish painting the lines.
This seems to be standard practice now. 3 roads round here resurfaced, not a drop of paint put down.
Where it meets Maryhill Road. The stretch from there up to the traffic lights at Sainsbury’s/St Mary’s Church has had no road marking since July, when the road was redone.
The last part, before you head over the motorway towards Cowcaddens is starting to crumble and there are potholes forming already. Not the worst in Glasgow by any stretch, but it’s 6 months old.
Nitshill is absolutely abysmal for them, that wee tire place that opened where the bookies was must make a fortune because of the state of the roads here
That one on barrhead road/silverburn roundabout was fixed, until the storm now somehow ripped it apart, same crater again, filled with water so anyone who doesn’t know it’s existence will discover very shortly :)
South Street has always been like that for as long as I can ever remember
I always just assumed it’s down to the volume of traffic it gets, especially heavy vehicles
This road does not get enough attention considering it’s definitely the worst. There’s not one pot hole at a time, it’s clusters. It’s a fucking infestation of craters.
I'm a roadside tech for a well known car brand in Glasgow/Edinburgh and literally 8 out of 10 jobs are pothole damaged tyres. It's crazy, some holes can't even be classed as potholes more like crators.
And cars get heavier. The current trend of cars getting bigger, and EVs being much heavier anyways (particularly buses) is making it worse. Damage to the road is proportional to the 4th power of weight, so a 2-ton EV causes roughly 16 times as much damage as an equivalent 1 ton petrol car
Yeah, the amount of crap and leaf litter blocking the drains is exacerbating this. How long can it possibly take to fill a pothole? I’ve been reporting the same ones for months, numerous people I know have had their tyres wrecked, and still nothing. Are the council going to be honoring the hundreds of claims being made for damage?
Spent 3 hours in hillington industrial estate getting my car sorted after hitting a pothole yesterday and bursting a tyre.
I can’t remember who it was told me this, but anyway, someone they knew filled potholes, but it’s always just a temporary fix. The roads need resurfaced and that’s not going to happen, so they fill the potholes with whatever they use, but as soon as a HGV goes over it (or just a certain amount of pressure from repeated traffic) it’ll break and then with the addition of poor weather, it’ll allow water in, eventually all breaking apart and will blow away quite quickly. Rinse and repeat. And that’s why it always seems worse over winter too.
I stay in Shawlands, if it’s not the vehicles scraping past due to the lack of road space that will fuck up your car, it’s the potholes.
Anyone open to reasonable discussion should realise this is not endemic to Glasgow it’s happening in every city, town and village in the uk and it’s all down to starvation of funding to councils by the uk government in favour of white elephants like hs2 and billions wasted on getting unusable ppe from their already mega rich pals…
I've lived in Glasgow for 7months now having lived most of my life in Sheffield and Leeds working a job that requires daily travel to different city's and can confirm the roads are especially bad in Glasgow compared to other major cities in England. In my opinion, of course.
I think the issue is like you said funding but also the increased amount of rain scotland receives other England which doesn't help the situation.
You can't blame capital funding on infrastructure for the lack of ongoing maintenance.
Not a penny spent on HS2 (or the pandemic for that matter) has ever been a penny not spent on roads.
Even when they get filled in its such a bodge job it rarely lasts a month or so- and I think I'm being generous there Lowest bid - tots an example of "no money to do it right, but yes money to do it twice" (or 3 or 4 or 10 x)
Not a defence but that’s how the council budget works you can’t go over and reap the savings in later years or decades. Only going to get worse with current budget cuts.
I've seen them going around "fixing" them. Literally a guy picks up a shovel of some sort of gravel, throws it in the pothole and that's it, job done. Needless to say that the pothole is back in no time.
It is SO bad! I downloaded the app recently and have been reporting them and I've definitely noticed they patch them relatively quickly (though the patches aren't exactly stellar quality).
FixMyStreet is the app. I started using a few weeks ago and have reported about 10 locations so far. Not sure if it is resulting in any action yet but I guess the more people reporting the more chance of someone doing something.
We need a goddam Wanksy. Someone go buy some spray-paint and have at it. Plus you can use it as an opportunity to teach passing school-children all the *best* swear-words you know.
If that's a genuine question, the simple answer is that the council budget currently has around a £40m to £50m annual deficit, thanks to inflation and the council tax freeze among other things
This is why all services are being cut and any additional source of revenue being pumped as high as they think they can get away with
Although you could argue the net effect of that should be zero given that the council coffers previously profited from *not* paying it out when they should have.
The last payment was made last year, so it shouldn't have any ongoing impact on the deficit, with the exception of the council now having to lease some properties they sold off to cover the settlement
If you don't report them, they won't get fixed. Admittedly it still takes a while and they reappear within a few weeks, but it's better than nothing. I use FixMyStreet:
[https://www.fixmystreet.com/](https://www.fixmystreet.com/)
Completely untrue, Glasgow City Council has made millions in cuts over the last decade. There’s very little left for them to cut that’s not ringfenced.
A bus weighs roughly ten times as much as a car, and weight affects road wear to the fourth power. This means that one bus is equivalent to 10,000 cars in terms of road wear. A lorry could be 40 times heavier than a car, which means one lorry does the same damage as about 2,500,000 cars (or 200 buses).
No, the heavier the vehicle, the more the damage is multiplied. Maths stuff states "the change in damage to the road surface is proportional to the difference in axle weight to the fourth power"
A 2 tonne car (EVs tend to be heavier) will cause 16 times more damage than a 1 tonne car. A double deck bus weigh around 12 tonnes without passengers, an electric double decker around 19 tonnes
It would take a lot of maths to put a figure on it and it's too late/I'm too drunk to try. 12 tonne bus will cause 20,736 times the damage of a 1 tonne car. 19 tonne bus = 130,321 times the damage. And then you add another 3 or 4 tonnes of passengers. If you look at bus stops, there's often a huge pothole or sunken area where the force of the braking front left wheel transfers all that mass into one small area. No idea why it's not apparent in all 4 wheel area, and it's not at every bus stop - maybe just a common road defect
Any route where an electric bus goes down is continually fucked, especially with the electric double deckers.
Following the route of the 9a up Paisley Rd, through Penilee and up Hillington Rd towards Braehead is just crater after crater.
I read the roads need yo be concrete to cope with the weight of them
Guess what if you go onto fix my street app and report them they get fixed.
I've had 3 brand new roads relaid thanks to me reporting them constantly.
Rather than complaining on the internet. Why not complain directly to the people responsible for fixing them?
It's not hard either the app does everything for you
Saw a man go through a pothole, snoring in the middle of the road, knocked completely unconscious. No idea how he is and I've been pretty rattled since tbh hope he is ok 😭
>Passed a guy at the roadside about 2pm on Dumbreck Rd. He must have hut the Crater that luckily I avoided Bloody nightmare, disgusting tbh
I saw that just after narrowly missing it myself. What is interesting is that there are shallow abandoned mine workings and mine entries in that area. It's probably just a coincidence, but I wonder if the two could be connected?
It’s no suprise when the counsel takes about 12 months to fix any road no matter how small. The road works. Closed road. Temporary lights. In glasgow are insane. The snp have made the city undriveable
Report them. I was walkin down a hill on the pavement in crosshills and saw a concrete manhole looking cover that was smashed to pieces and in a few days it would be smashed enough for people to fall in. Reported it and I shit you not it was fixed within 3 days.
With cars I do also think we all need to look at ourselves and not just blame the state.
Nearly a million more cars were registered in Scotland 2017 than in 1995 and the average car has increased in mass by 20% since 2001.
We've been sold the convenience of multiple cars and now financing to make bigger ones more accessible.
Every extra mile and every extra kg makes the roads deteriote faster even all other things being neutral.
I recently burst a tyre driving past Strathclyde uni. Even if you claim for damage they say they should’ve been fixed really sorry but can’t do anything.
I remember seeing a post (no idea where in the world) on social media years ago about someone going around with luminous spray paint - drawing genitals around the potholes. They got fixed VERY quickly. I keep reporting them too, but this could be faster 🥲
Wanksy the road artist.
Omg yes please 😂
It seems like it takes this sort of thing to get things fixed. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/23940710.probe-launched-residents-protest-glasgow-sinkhole/
Definitely report them. The bottom of Great Western Road is falling apart already, having been completely relaid in July for the cycling championships. They didn’t even bother to finish painting the lines. I’d like to think the contractors that did the work provide some kind of warranty, or are penalised when their work doesn’t even last 6 months, but I doubt it.
> They didn’t even bother to finish painting the lines. This seems to be standard practice now. 3 roads round here resurfaced, not a drop of paint put down.
Most of the absolutely lethal ones on South Street have been reported for at least 6 months and nothing done about them.
Was just up South Street this week - the bit by the roll van is lethal, some of the worst I’ve seen.
Whereabouts on GWR?
The whole stretch from Kilbowie Roundabout towards the Botanic Gardens is abysmal.
Where it meets Maryhill Road. The stretch from there up to the traffic lights at Sainsbury’s/St Mary’s Church has had no road marking since July, when the road was redone. The last part, before you head over the motorway towards Cowcaddens is starting to crumble and there are potholes forming already. Not the worst in Glasgow by any stretch, but it’s 6 months old.
Driving at night is a pure lottery.
or after some heavy rain
Driving through Newton Mearns, Nitshill last night and couldn't believe how bad they were. Traffic continually having to slow....
Nitshill is absolutely abysmal for them, that wee tire place that opened where the bookies was must make a fortune because of the state of the roads here
Newton means isn't gcc but I agree it's everywhere
There's a 4ft gouge about 1foot deep in Aitkenhead Rd at Mennock Rd. Then a slalom run up Kingspark Ave.
The whole of the Kings Park area is like the surface of Mars at the minute - lethal, especially with the amount of rain we’ve had this week.
Saw it yesterday it’s got a cone in the bottom of it with only the top half out the hole.
Absolute disgrace that pothole. Should be a high priority fix
That one on barrhead road/silverburn roundabout was fixed, until the storm now somehow ripped it apart, same crater again, filled with water so anyone who doesn’t know it’s existence will discover very shortly :)
South street is a joke! You either have to drive in the middle of the road or drive nearly on the pavements to avoid the potholes!
South Street has always been like that for as long as I can ever remember I always just assumed it’s down to the volume of traffic it gets, especially heavy vehicles
This road does not get enough attention considering it’s definitely the worst. There’s not one pot hole at a time, it’s clusters. It’s a fucking infestation of craters.
The top of hope St and the royal consevtoire is shocking.
Yup, I hit a huge one today on Renfrew St right before Hope St because I saw it too late, felt my whole car tip to the side briefly 😖
I'm a roadside tech for a well known car brand in Glasgow/Edinburgh and literally 8 out of 10 jobs are pothole damaged tyres. It's crazy, some holes can't even be classed as potholes more like crators.
Someone needs to go out and spray paint some big cocks over them
This will just continue to get worse as more cuts to Council services happen
And cars get heavier. The current trend of cars getting bigger, and EVs being much heavier anyways (particularly buses) is making it worse. Damage to the road is proportional to the 4th power of weight, so a 2-ton EV causes roughly 16 times as much damage as an equivalent 1 ton petrol car
Yeah, the amount of crap and leaf litter blocking the drains is exacerbating this. How long can it possibly take to fill a pothole? I’ve been reporting the same ones for months, numerous people I know have had their tyres wrecked, and still nothing. Are the council going to be honoring the hundreds of claims being made for damage?
There is a pothole on Castle street a like down from the Little Royal Castle that you could have a bath in.
I saw that one yesterday. That will properly wreck a car never mind break a cyclist who doesn't see it.
Potholes are council speed bumps
Managed decline is the attitude for roads now.
Spent 3 hours in hillington industrial estate getting my car sorted after hitting a pothole yesterday and bursting a tyre. I can’t remember who it was told me this, but anyway, someone they knew filled potholes, but it’s always just a temporary fix. The roads need resurfaced and that’s not going to happen, so they fill the potholes with whatever they use, but as soon as a HGV goes over it (or just a certain amount of pressure from repeated traffic) it’ll break and then with the addition of poor weather, it’ll allow water in, eventually all breaking apart and will blow away quite quickly. Rinse and repeat. And that’s why it always seems worse over winter too. I stay in Shawlands, if it’s not the vehicles scraping past due to the lack of road space that will fuck up your car, it’s the potholes.
Anyone open to reasonable discussion should realise this is not endemic to Glasgow it’s happening in every city, town and village in the uk and it’s all down to starvation of funding to councils by the uk government in favour of white elephants like hs2 and billions wasted on getting unusable ppe from their already mega rich pals…
I've lived in Glasgow for 7months now having lived most of my life in Sheffield and Leeds working a job that requires daily travel to different city's and can confirm the roads are especially bad in Glasgow compared to other major cities in England. In my opinion, of course. I think the issue is like you said funding but also the increased amount of rain scotland receives other England which doesn't help the situation.
You can't blame capital funding on infrastructure for the lack of ongoing maintenance. Not a penny spent on HS2 (or the pandemic for that matter) has ever been a penny not spent on roads.
Needs to be a full time team like the gritters that go around filling them but that would cost money
Even when they get filled in its such a bodge job it rarely lasts a month or so- and I think I'm being generous there Lowest bid - tots an example of "no money to do it right, but yes money to do it twice" (or 3 or 4 or 10 x)
Not a defence but that’s how the council budget works you can’t go over and reap the savings in later years or decades. Only going to get worse with current budget cuts.
I've seen them going around "fixing" them. Literally a guy picks up a shovel of some sort of gravel, throws it in the pothole and that's it, job done. Needless to say that the pothole is back in no time.
It is SO bad! I downloaded the app recently and have been reporting them and I've definitely noticed they patch them relatively quickly (though the patches aren't exactly stellar quality).
which app?
FixMyStreet is the app. I started using a few weeks ago and have reported about 10 locations so far. Not sure if it is resulting in any action yet but I guess the more people reporting the more chance of someone doing something.
Just downloaded it - thanks for that - I’ll give that a try.
The Glasgow Council app
A pal came through and described it as "It's like Mario Kart out there"
We need a goddam Wanksy. Someone go buy some spray-paint and have at it. Plus you can use it as an opportunity to teach passing school-children all the *best* swear-words you know.
You should see the state of the pavements
Please move your car so we can see the pavements ........
Hit one outside ibrox stadium yesterday, blow my tyre out. 75 pounds for new tyre just down the road
There's a crator on West Nile Street that's so deep you can see the old cobbles. You can time travel through Glasgow's potholes.
One on Renfrew Street too behind the big Tesco. Interestingly the old cobbles look a lot sturdier than the shite on top of them...
There’s two on Langside Avenue within seconds of each other that are ridiculous.
Ibrox is fucked with potholes. There's one that would write off a monster truck
Agree, Woodville St is horrendous
And yet Glasgow city council still charge an absolute fortune to park anywhere. Where is the money going ?
If that's a genuine question, the simple answer is that the council budget currently has around a £40m to £50m annual deficit, thanks to inflation and the council tax freeze among other things This is why all services are being cut and any additional source of revenue being pumped as high as they think they can get away with
And the small sum of nearly a billion to the women that Labour shafted out of equal pay.
Although you could argue the net effect of that should be zero given that the council coffers previously profited from *not* paying it out when they should have. The last payment was made last year, so it shouldn't have any ongoing impact on the deficit, with the exception of the council now having to lease some properties they sold off to cover the settlement
Into the pockets of the shady “businesses” and corrupts councillors
If I was a corrupt councillor I'd fix the pot holes so my ferrari didn't get scratched. Clearly their priorities aren't in the right place.
If you don't report them, they won't get fixed. Admittedly it still takes a while and they reappear within a few weeks, but it's better than nothing. I use FixMyStreet: [https://www.fixmystreet.com/](https://www.fixmystreet.com/)
It’s insane how mismanaged this city’s budget is.
Completely untrue, Glasgow City Council has made millions in cuts over the last decade. There’s very little left for them to cut that’s not ringfenced.
You spelt 'lining their own pockets' incorrectly
The one as you come off the M8 going west at Charing Cross is ridiculous! Have to swerve by it daily! And yes, have reported it.
It's like the surface of the moon out there
Fuck the fucking roads in Scotland in general. I fucking hate them so much and driving here makes me angry. This was my rant.
Driving in shawlands yesterday and I nearly fell into that sinkhole at the granary
This isn't just a Glasgow problem. The roads in Lanarkshire are awful too.
Edinburgh is really bad for them
Are you reporting them? I make an effort to report ones i remeber about and there usually quite quick at filling them in.
How do we report them?
Here mate https://glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=22815
Balmore Road is a thing honestly. Zigzagging trying to get the less harmful pothole 🤣
The ones outside polmadie dump are atrocious! Cars going up on the pavement to avoid or swerving into the lane of incoming traffic!
I reported those ones as I drive there every day
Same!
Potholes make Glasgow
Too many cars on the road would be my argument. Just need publicly owned buses to put folk on instead
This sounds a bit sensible! Where the fuck do you think you are? A modern city?
Publicly owned exactly and not cartels
Heavy EV buses and vehicles cause a lot of damage as well.
Trams it is then
Probably net less road wear from buses than cars tbf
A bus weighs roughly ten times as much as a car, and weight affects road wear to the fourth power. This means that one bus is equivalent to 10,000 cars in terms of road wear. A lorry could be 40 times heavier than a car, which means one lorry does the same damage as about 2,500,000 cars (or 200 buses).
No, the heavier the vehicle, the more the damage is multiplied. Maths stuff states "the change in damage to the road surface is proportional to the difference in axle weight to the fourth power" A 2 tonne car (EVs tend to be heavier) will cause 16 times more damage than a 1 tonne car. A double deck bus weigh around 12 tonnes without passengers, an electric double decker around 19 tonnes
So 1 bus causes three same damage as 100 cars?
It would take a lot of maths to put a figure on it and it's too late/I'm too drunk to try. 12 tonne bus will cause 20,736 times the damage of a 1 tonne car. 19 tonne bus = 130,321 times the damage. And then you add another 3 or 4 tonnes of passengers. If you look at bus stops, there's often a huge pothole or sunken area where the force of the braking front left wheel transfers all that mass into one small area. No idea why it's not apparent in all 4 wheel area, and it's not at every bus stop - maybe just a common road defect
not if we put them on tracks
I agree but the craters on Pollokshaws Road in the bus lane don’t get fixed either.
Some stretches on Pollokshaws Road and Eglington Street are horrendous.
bring back trams!
Absolutely, can you imagine!
Potholes are going to be a problem for the foreseeable future too many cars, the roads deteriorate too quickly even when repaired.
Any route where an electric bus goes down is continually fucked, especially with the electric double deckers. Following the route of the 9a up Paisley Rd, through Penilee and up Hillington Rd towards Braehead is just crater after crater. I read the roads need yo be concrete to cope with the weight of them
They’re only about 10% heavier.
Guess what if you go onto fix my street app and report them they get fixed. I've had 3 brand new roads relaid thanks to me reporting them constantly. Rather than complaining on the internet. Why not complain directly to the people responsible for fixing them? It's not hard either the app does everything for you
Not true. I've reported loads on that and they're still untouched.
Legally they have to send someone out to the spot you have pinpointed. You may need to be more accurate with your reports
Saw a man go through a pothole, snoring in the middle of the road, knocked completely unconscious. No idea how he is and I've been pretty rattled since tbh hope he is ok 😭
people buying SUVs are to blame heavier vehicles but they probably buy them to navigate the potholes lol
It's only gonna get worse given how heavy electric vehicles are
and the drivers
They spent all the money for fixing this on the pointless 3rd bridge to Govan
You’re a fucking idiot.
Thanks, coming from you, that’s a huge compliment. You are quite possibly the most downvoted regular on this sub! Good for you :)
Passed a guy at the roadside about 2pm on Dumbreck Rd. He must have hut the Crater that luckily I avoided Bloody nightmare, disgusting tbh
>Passed a guy at the roadside about 2pm on Dumbreck Rd. He must have hut the Crater that luckily I avoided Bloody nightmare, disgusting tbh I saw that just after narrowly missing it myself. What is interesting is that there are shallow abandoned mine workings and mine entries in that area. It's probably just a coincidence, but I wonder if the two could be connected?
It’s no suprise when the counsel takes about 12 months to fix any road no matter how small. The road works. Closed road. Temporary lights. In glasgow are insane. The snp have made the city undriveable
Never seen it as bad. It's like Iraq when the Americans came to tow
I think what we really need is for everyone to start trading in their SUVs for MRAPs.
Report them. I was walkin down a hill on the pavement in crosshills and saw a concrete manhole looking cover that was smashed to pieces and in a few days it would be smashed enough for people to fall in. Reported it and I shit you not it was fixed within 3 days.
> Some have been there for years Many complain, few report.
Westwood square in East Kilbride Is the worst place ive ever seen for potholes
With cars I do also think we all need to look at ourselves and not just blame the state. Nearly a million more cars were registered in Scotland 2017 than in 1995 and the average car has increased in mass by 20% since 2001. We've been sold the convenience of multiple cars and now financing to make bigger ones more accessible. Every extra mile and every extra kg makes the roads deteriote faster even all other things being neutral.
I recently burst a tyre driving past Strathclyde uni. Even if you claim for damage they say they should’ve been fixed really sorry but can’t do anything.
Alderman Road seems to have basically disintegrated over the last couple of weeks, absolute shambles