The Road is CLOSED

The county council have decided the road needs some attention. These guys have been sweating for days now.

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K10D + Kit lens @21mm
Aperture = f/16
Exposure = 1/125
ISO = 280
Metering = Spot
Mode = Tv

Shot into full sun to highlight the steam of the hot asphalt


Critique welcomed

Bernard

Council no longer seem to fix roads around here

Works well with the steam.

So that's how they get rid of pot-holes!!

Great image, Bernard!

That's how they spend the last bits of their money before the end of the financial year so they can't be told " You didn't use it all last year , so you clearly got too much "

Cracking picture

Pity we can't smell it I love the smell of
hot bit-mac!

Thank you all for your comments, very much appreciated.

It makes getting to and fro home/anywhere jolly difficuly but it has been over 40 years since any work was done on this stretch. Apparently by the time they finish the project will have cost £3/4M.

I'm wondering how long it will be before the water/gas/telecom/elec/cable/etc/etc come and dig it up again, I betting before this year is out.

regards
Bernard

Almost certainly - It often seems as if they wait for a utility to request clearance to dig up the road, then rush resurface it first!

Most of the roads I use coming back from work are too rural for much work by utilities. Pot holes are therefore dealt with by low quality (cheapest bidder) patches that rarely last a few months.

But this isn't a rush job, or a cheap one. The guys doing the job are (I think rightly) proud of the new surface.

Just a shame it's awkward getting off the housing estate I live on.


Some of the local lanes have had a spray of tar and a dusting of pebbles in the last 10 years and pot holes filled by itinerents

The pavements are the worst though, they did those (I think) with what looked like creosote and sawdust. It lasted until the first frost (frost, not freeze)




regards
Bernard