Düsseldorf -
Happy times, sometimes cold, sometimes snow, sometimes rain, what annoys the people, is for Düsseldorf streets is a real horror.
In many bursts, therefore, on the asphalt, leaving ugly, but especially for pedestrians and motorists, dangerous potholes.
This is a job for Bernard van Kampen: He is one of twelve control goers to review daily all roads, footpaths and cycle paths.
Equipped with a digital pocket computer running van Kampen per week - whether summer or winter - about 70 km from and looks after things.
Has he found a pothole, he gives the exact position in its digital city map and quantify the nature and size of the damage. "From me to be marked as yellow damage reported to the damaged area and usually the very next day from one of our 18 service road, columns (a total of 45 employees) repaired," he explains. "Marked in red represent a risk to road safety and are put on the same day."
"The problem is the constant change of freeze-thaw on," said Roland Hahn from the Office for traffic management. "Taut the ice, water runs into the road cracks. If it freezes, it expands and breaks the asphalt. The constant freezing and watering holes are getting bigger. "
If the repair column called automatically warms first cold asphalt with an oversized burner, fill the holes and then it spreads from the site. Particularly from frost damaged roads are currently, according to Hahn, the Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Strasse, Grashof, Brehm, Duisburg or Monheimer street. "Citizens can report holes in our office." Per year are a 20,000 damage claims.
