Cardiff Council should take note!
Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:02 am
I have seen potholes with yellow spray around them wide open for months! It took Japanese authourities 4 days to fill in this one! Most of the ones I have seen only need a bucket of tarmac too! 
Tokyo (CNN)In the end, it disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared.
A giant sinkhole which swallowed a chunk of road the length of a city block in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka has been filled mere days after it appeared, a testament to Japanese engineering and efficiency.
After the sinkhole appeared on November 8, subcontractors worked around the clock to fill in the 30 meter (98 ft) wide, 15 meter (50 ft) deep hole by the 12th with a mixture of sand and cement. The job was complicated by the water which had seeped in from sewage pipes destroyed by collapsing sections of road.
After that it only took another 48 hours to reinstall all utilities -- electricity, water, sewage, gas and telecommunication lines -- and to resurface the road. There were no reports of injuries.
The gigantic sinkhole opened suddenly last week in Hakata ward in Fukuoka's business district, swallowing huge sections of road near underground work to extend a subway tunnel.
City officials were working nearby to extend the subway from a nearby station to the city center along a 1.4-kilometer (0.86 mile) route.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/asia/fuku ... le-filled/
Tokyo (CNN)In the end, it disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared.
A giant sinkhole which swallowed a chunk of road the length of a city block in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka has been filled mere days after it appeared, a testament to Japanese engineering and efficiency.
After the sinkhole appeared on November 8, subcontractors worked around the clock to fill in the 30 meter (98 ft) wide, 15 meter (50 ft) deep hole by the 12th with a mixture of sand and cement. The job was complicated by the water which had seeped in from sewage pipes destroyed by collapsing sections of road.
After that it only took another 48 hours to reinstall all utilities -- electricity, water, sewage, gas and telecommunication lines -- and to resurface the road. There were no reports of injuries.
The gigantic sinkhole opened suddenly last week in Hakata ward in Fukuoka's business district, swallowing huge sections of road near underground work to extend a subway tunnel.
City officials were working nearby to extend the subway from a nearby station to the city center along a 1.4-kilometer (0.86 mile) route.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/asia/fuku ... le-filled/
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Re: Cardiff Council should take note!
Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:52 am
Yes well I guess the Japs can't live with this hole.
Re: Cardiff Council should take note!
Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:59 am
Our roads are a disgrace 
Re: Cardiff Council should take note!
Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:32 pm
Dahboy wrote:Our roads are a disgrace
I cross train on a racing bike and I have nearly come a cropper a couple of times! I have bust two left hand tyres on my car too and the roads are relatively tidy around here compred to some parts of Cardiff!
Wait until Winter when the ice opens them up all over the place!
Im guessing the Council have probably put in a big order for tins of yellow spray paint in preparation so perhaps im just worrying over nothing though.
