POTHOLES - Be Careful

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There are some serious potholes especially around the manhole covers.
I hit a few in the car and felt a hell of a jolt.

Maybe it's just me but the roads seems to be in rough shape.
Also look out for the 'hill' or 'bump' reverse of a pothole.

I think there is a city fund where as if your car/bike get damaged you can make a claim to the city for damages.
 
Hate those "pavement wrinkles" at bus stops. Don't know why that happens right where the buses stop to pick up passengers. Hit one on York Mills just east of the DVP this weekend at 50km/h. Bike hopped so much it threw my left luggage case off!. Stopped and walked back to pick it up; luckily no one ran over it in the meantime.
 
Props to the guy with the yellow Honda F4I who railed a manhole cover at 60 and got about 3 feet of air on highway 2 just east of thickson. He stayed up, looked like he ****** himself though.
 
robmack said:
Hate those "pavement wrinkles" at bus stops. Don't know why that happens right where the buses stop to pick up passengers. Hit one on York Mills just east of the DVP this weekend at 50km/h. Bike hopped so much it threw my left luggage case off!. Stopped and walked back to pick it up; luckily no one ran over it in the meantime.
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If you contact the city about it they are pretty prompt to go out and fix these from my experience.
 
There was a report that 95% of all claims made are denied. You have to be able to prove the city was "negligent." To do that you must show that the city had a report of a pothole more than 24 or 48 hours before you hit it. If no report of a pothole is made then the city is deemed not to have known it existed and therefore not responsible. Once a report is received the city has either 24 or 48 hours to dispatch a crew and either "mark or repair" the damage.

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Everyone is out, nice weather.
There are some serious potholes especially around the manhole covers.
I hit a few in the car and felt a hell of a jolt.

Maybe it's just me but the roads seems to be in rough shape.
Also look out for the 'hill' or 'bump' reverse of a pothole.

I think there is a city fund where as if your car/bike get damaged you can make a claim to the city for damages.
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Yeah there are a few spots on the QEW and Gardiner... wonder how many accidents are caused by that
 
robmack said:
Hate those "pavement wrinkles" at bus stops. Don't know why that happens right where the buses stop to pick up passengers. Hit one on York Mills just east of the DVP this weekend at 50km/h. Bike hopped so much it threw my left luggage case off!. Stopped and walked back to pick it up; luckily no one ran over it in the meantime.
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Those pavement wrinkles on york mills are BRUTAL! I live just down the street and have to deal with them a ton. I have to avoid the curb lane in my car otherwise im gonna end up ripping off my exhaust.
 
GenuineChevy39 said:
Those pavement wrinkles on york mills are BRUTAL! I live just down the street and have to deal with them a ton. I have to avoid the curb lane in my car otherwise im gonna end up ripping off my exhaust.
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can you provide specific intersection and direction
 
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can you provide specific intersection and direction
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Second set of lights east of the dvp going east. its just a crosswalk with a bus stop. The other one is york mills and fenside going west in the curb lane. Its a bus stop and the wrinkle is pretty massive. Although they may have fixed that one just before the winter. Someone else would have to confirm
 
robmack said:
Hate those "pavement wrinkles" at bus stops. Don't know why that happens right where the buses stop to pick up passengers. Hit one on York Mills just east of the DVP this weekend at 50km/h. Bike hopped so much it threw my left luggage case off!. Stopped and walked back to pick it up; luckily no one ran over it in the meantime.
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The heat in the summer will actually make the asphalt so hot that it becomes fairly malleable. Add the weight of a fully laden bus to the mix while it sits in one place and it will actually begin to sink into the asphalt. The wrinkles are the result of the constant traffic/buses displacing asphalt over time.

Same thing happens to bikes on hot pavement with the side stand. It'll sink into the asphalt!
 
Killyin said:
427 Southbound anywhere from just South of Zenway all the way down to the Gardiner/QEW is absolute murder. I completely avoid it on the bike.
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i havent ridden on it in a while, i almost always do the collectors there
 
LePhillou said:
i havent ridden on it in a while, i almost always do the collectors there
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As you get closer to QEW/Gardiner in the Holiday Drive/Eva Road/Burnhamthorpe area isn't too bad. Further North on the Southbound side around Steeles/Finch/Rexdale Blvd is absolute Mad Max level road conditions.
 
As I recall, they had most of the northbound 427 in that same area closed for construction last summer.
Perhaps it's the south side's turn this year.
 
I broke the belly pan on the FJ last week after hitting a really deep slit between two lanes on the 427. Impact was so hard I thought the rim would be f*cked. S'fine though.
 
robmack said:
Hate those "pavement wrinkles" at bus stops. Don't know why that happens right where the buses stop to pick up passengers. Hit one on York Mills just east of the DVP this weekend at 50km/h. Bike hopped so much it threw my left luggage case off!. Stopped and walked back to pick it up; luckily no one ran over it in the meantime.
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The weight of the bus constantly stopping on that spot sinks the asphalt over time creating the "knuckles". They have started putting concrete patches on some spots since it's more resilient.

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Benny! said:
The weight of the bus constantly stopping on that spot sinks the asphalt over time creating the "knuckles". They have started putting concrete patches on some spots since it's more resilient.

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How stupid can they be?
We never had these problems with the buses before and now they use the soft asphalt.
And these ppl are licenses engineers that approved this for use on our roads.
safety???
 
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How stupid can they be?
We never had these problems with the buses before and now they use the soft asphalt.
And these ppl are licenses engineers that approved this for use on our roads.
safety???
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I always remember a time with road knuckles.

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-D- said:
How stupid can they be?
We never had these problems with the buses before and now they use the soft asphalt.
And these ppl are licenses engineers that approved this for use on our roads.
safety???
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cost. i hear the spiels from condo board woes of saving pennies to lose out on dollars. its everywhere
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