In West St Helen Street, and nearby roads, a crew with a line-painting lorry have been redrawing and replacing the road markings. The marking paint is melted in a tank and extruded onto the road surface before cooling and hardening.
Old lines are removed by heating them to soften the material, then it is scraped away.
The double yellow lines near the Co-op are being replaced with a parking bay. Opposite, the parking outside the Salvation Army has been replaced by double yellow lines. These parking changes were agreed on 22 January by Oxfordshire County Council following an earlier consultation.
‘Residents Parking’ lettering and bay markings were redrawn elsewhere and added in St Edmunds Lane. There are new double yellow lines, particularly at corners.
The holes in the road either side of the iron bridge have been filled in and the barriers removed so for now West St Helen Street is open to through traffic from South Abingdon.
The potholes at the entrance to the hospital have been filled and patched, but the other side of the road remains corrugated.
Doubtless, the county council will point to a lack of funding; but the roads locally and nationally are a disgrace – the result of austerity for 18 years. The A417 between Rowstock and Streatley is so badly broken as to be unsafe for quite long stretches.
I agree with ppjs – I fear that lots of rain (day after day) and then a sudden freeze is exactly what potholes thrive upon. The preventive measure would have been to ensure that the roads surfaces were intact to stop the rainwater seeping down and getting into the road sub-structure – so basically what we are all experiencing now is the result of “economy savings” 5 to 10 years ago……..As a Nation we really need to invest in infrastructure as many of us are using facilities installed in the 1800’s, 1900’s and early 2020’s.I t would be totally wrong to criticise the County Council Highways staff – they are coping with the consequences of budget decisions made at least 5 years earlier, and are trying best to fix the worst problems with the funds they have.