Devon & Cornwall flood road repairs to cost millions.

[bigpaul]

(5 January 2013, 12:59)BDG Wrote: That one is a bit extreme - that bit of road is on the side of a decent hill, the road is very old and the council do not have a record of when it was last maintained. With thing like motorways and modern dual carraigeways, you would need a glacier to shift them.

The road there is by no means impassible - it is safe for a decent volume of traffic, but half of the road has not collapsed. When we had the 100 year floods in August in the North East, I went out on some 'destroyed' roads and while I was going a lot slower than I normally would, I was still going.

Some of the country roads the next county down from me have not been repaired since 2010 or before. Holes that were caused by winter damage meant that the floods washed out a lot of the footings for the roads. There are some bloody big holes.

thats my whole point, one of the roads we regularly use has been washed out into the river, and its not the only one.