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New Tue 15 Nov 16 23:05 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - henry k
www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37985078

P.S. Apologies from the team for a delay.
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New Tue 15 Nov 16 23:19 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - zippy
Superb!

That attitude explains why Japanese cars just work.

If I owned one of the buildings surrounding the pot hole I would want to check the foundations.

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New Wed 16 Nov 16 07:57 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - Old Navy
If that happened in central London it would get the same attention. Outside the M25 forget it.
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New Wed 16 Nov 16 08:05 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - sooty123
I doubt anywhere in the UK would have it fixed so fast. Mind you we don't live in an earthquake zone, so it's probably a good thing.
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 07:36 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - Bromptonaut
>> I doubt anywhere in the UK would have it fixed so fast. Mind you we
>> don't live in an earthquake zone, so it's probably a good thing.

Wherever they happen sinkholes are pretty rare in UK. Not so in Japan which is in an earthquake zone. Therefore they have the physical kit and organisational structure to sort them quickly.

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New Thu 17 Nov 16 08:26 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - sooty123
> Wherever they happen sinkholes are pretty rare in UK. Not so in Japan which is in an earthquake zone. Therefore they have the physical kit and organisational structure to sort> them quickly.
>>

That's what I was getting, I'd rather live with a few potholes than in a place that was a natural disaster zone.
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 10:32 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - VxFan
>> I'd rather live with a few potholes than in a place that was a natural disaster zone.

Bradford?

;)
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 10:40 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - movilogo
>> I doubt anywhere in the UK would have it fixed so fast.

In UK, there would be a H&S analysis first, then there would be a tender for quote, there would be few naysayers who would say why it should not be done in specific way, it would go over budget, opposition would say how govt. is useless, govt. would clap groundworkers for doing and excellent job, newspapers would reserve a space in headline for a week, council would introduce a levy to cover the additional cost of fixing and then everyone would forget.

I have lot of respect for Japan (and now South Korea too) and unlike European/American culture, I think Japanese still prefer to take a long-term view rather than quick short term wins.


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New Thu 17 Nov 16 05:24 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - PeterS
We're in Tokyo at the moment, and the amount of construction / development work going on at a number of major stations, including Shibuya which I *think* is the second or third busiest station in the world, is incredible. And not a rail replacement bus service to be seen ;)
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 06:30 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - Duncan
>> Shibuya which I *think* is the second
>> or third busiest station in the world, is incredible.
>>

Fourth.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya_Station
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 07:27 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - PeterS
Ah okay. Positively quiet then, no wonder everything's running as normal ;)
I note the Wikipedia numbers are from 2004 - 2.4m passengers a day average. That's not far off 900 million passenger movements a year!! Must be over a billion by now :O
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 07:45 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - PeterS
In fact, it seems they are rebuilding the whole station and the buildings around it without, as far as I can make out, closing it...

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/16/national/shibuya-station-to-be-rebuilt/

We've also seen that one of the lines that runs to Shibuya - the Toyoku line from Yokohama - which at the Yokohama end was mainly an above ground commuter line is now hundreds of feet underground from Yokohama. And instead of building on the land freed up its become a 'green route' cycle path / footpath :)
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 17:28 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - Bromptonaut
Why we struggle to dealwith sink holes:

www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/nov/16/that-sinking-feeling-why-is-britain-so-bad-at-filling-in-sinkholes
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 18:14 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - rtj70
Because we're crap at this sort of thing?

The Japanese are efficient at most things.

But why do they get bigger and more frequent sinkholes in Japan?
Last edited by: rtj70 on Thu 17 Nov 16 at 18:19
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New Thu 17 Nov 16 22:24 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - Old Navy
>> But why do they get bigger and more frequent sinkholes in Japan?
>>

Earthquake zone related?
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 13:00 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - PeterS
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>> But why do they get bigger and more frequent sinkholes in Japan?
>>

Almost certainly because of the frequent earth tremor/quake activity, though the huge network of underground rail / gas / water / electrics / com's can't help stability of the ground!
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New Tue 29 Nov 16 22:13 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - Falkirk Bairn
Road closed again - new slump

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38129691
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New Tue 29 Nov 16 22:38 
 Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole - CGNorwich
"Councils. Note! How to fix a pothole"

Hmmm.

Or perhaps not then. Perhaps one of our councils could give them some advice.
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Tue 29 Nov 16 at 22:39
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