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[pumpernickle]

Ok, so Cyprus experiences 300 days out of 365 a year in total sunshine, lovely jubbly.

So I understand that a day or two of heavy rain may take its toll on roads that are sided with dusty, rocky areas where there is poor drainage...

But for **** sake, what is going on with the pot hole situation here?! Is there any need for moon esque craters to appear on a previous half normal road, and for the whole stretch to be scattered in rocks and crap? No.

I'm unimpressed. My car is being systematically destroyed, and I cant help but blame negligent planning and investment on behalf of the authorities. I mean, they may as well build the roads with lego.

All that money wasted! ok, look at the Dhekalia road, the one from the hotels like the Beau Rivage, all the way past the oil refinery and into larnaca. Theyve been building that for the last 7,000 Milennia. There are Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens who witnessed the first laying of tarmac. They're probably somewhere in the cabarets waiting for it all the be over so they can take their paid-for brides home to Mother.

Serious though, I've never driven on a road that is in the process of so much maintenance, only to discover that the bits that eventually get completed and opened to the public are just as pot holed and bumpy and un-driveable on as the old strip.

I'm thinking of writing a letter to the Town Hall:

Dear Mayor,
I'm aware that all those back handers from contracters must be holding you back from gong down to the Dheky Road to oversee the works there, but could you please reimburse me for the damage to the following which has hit my all too frequently empty wallet hard?

- Displacer Units
- Shock Absorbers
- Suspension
- Firestone Tyres (all four, and the spare)
- rear left axle
- steering column and tracking
- exhaust muffler.

That's be £2,456 please, you git.

Thanks

[PvUtrix]

lol, I'll sign it, with a little addition, I drive a bike and one of
those pot holes could easily send me flying, with much more serious consequences...

[TheCabbie]

Coming back from Larnaca towards Paralimni on Wednesday evening I decided the engineers that built that stretch of highway should be stretched themselves , having no drainage isn't the end of the world as long as the road is correctly cambered in order to get the water off, I was constantly aquaplaning, as the water, when it's not sitting in huge puddles, is literally gushing across the highway in places.

I slowed right down but came across a very pissed off but confused driver who had span off, smashing both the front and back of his nice new Renault.
One of the main problems in Cyprus is that drivers aren't educated about these type of driving conditions and problems, so don't really have a clue whats happening at the point of contact between their vehicle and the road....Which still isn't an excuse for building roads that can't handle the sort of rain we get!

[Svetlana]

May I ask what 'Municiple Charge' you are paying? 100 pounds a year, or less? In other countries we would be paying over a 1,000 pounds; unfortunately we cannot have good roads and low taxation .

Lana

[devil]

The trouble is that, by the time they open a road to traffic, it is already so old that it already needs maintenance

For example, how long has it been (and will it be) since we could travel from the Kalo Chorio roundabout to the Port roundabout in Larnaca without at least a couple of diversions over waste ground? OK, the bit to the Fire Station is just about finished, but from the Orphanides crossroads to the end has taken 3 years so far and looks as if it may take another three years; in the meanwhile, how many businesses have gone bankrupt because customers cannot access their premises? This is, IMHO, a far worse scandal than the road surfaces; at least you can go from A to B.

[Christo]

devil,
I agree with you 100% on this issue.

When I came to Cyprus a couple of years ago, looking for a property, a particular part of a road was dug up and in a mess. Two years on, I am living in Cyprus, the road..........still dug up! I know we are slow and laid back in Cyprus, but bloody hell!!

But the other side to the arguement is as Svetlana said, do we want to pay, as in my case in the U.K. £1500 a year in Council Tax?

Chris

[Kenneth]

devil,
I agree with you 100% on this issue.

When I came to Cyprus a couple of years ago, looking for a property, a particular part of a road was dug up and in a mess. Two years on, I am living in Cyprus, the road..........still dug up! I know we are slow and laid back in Cyprus, but bloody hell!!

But the other side to the arguement is as Svetlana said, do we want to pay, as in my case in the U.K. £1500 a year in Council Tax?

Chris

He yeah and the roads in the U.K are still crap.

[devil]

devil,
But the other side to the arguement is as Svetlana said, do we want to pay, as in my case in the U.K. £1500 a year in Council Tax?

Which costs less, doing a job in a few months or spinning it out over five or more years? In contrast, this summer, a mountain road in Switzerland was washed away by the floods. Including blasting away a new shelf on the mountain side over 200 m and carting away the rubble, they had one-way essential traffic operating in 5 days and the new road was fully operational, with avalanche shields, drainage, markings and safety barriers in 2 weeks. This proves that road construction CAN be done in a short period, even over the most difficult terrain, if there is a will.

[tcklim]

I'm going to have to argue with you over Switzerland They've been digging up that road down by Brasseurs for over a year now and I don't see any change...... I live down there and it's a pain!

Cyprus though has a horrible road system... you can even tell from the plane When you pass over Europe (or Switz) you can see organized little squares of communities, it all looks so neat and orderly.... pass over Cyprus and its just a jumble of roads that go nowhere and clearly no urban planners were ever employed by any of the town councils

[devil]

I did say where there was a will Yes, I'm aware that road repairs in the Canton de Vaud and especially in Lausanne do seem interminable. I'm convinced that the City Fathers have an inferiority complex because Lausanne is only a small city. They therefore dig up many roads at the start of the tourist season, so that, with all the hold-ups and the diversions, forcing motorists to go round in circles, it takes 40 minutes to go from Prilly to Pully, and the foreign tourists go away believing Lausanne is a big city I must admit, though, that the LEB extension from Chauderon to Bel Air caused less havoc than I anticipated. I haven't been there since the M2 construction was started, so I don't know how it is creating chaos (not counting the accidental road collapse in Haldimand, which was unforeseen, even if it should have been sussed out beforehand). Getting back on-topic, the road in Larnaca that I mentioned could have been finished at least two years ago, but I doubt whether it will be finished next year, let alone this one - and it is one of the most important roads in the town, totally closed off in both directions AND many of the surrounding service roads, as well. I bet when (if?) it's finished, it will have cost twice what was budgeted for.