How long is it safe to ignore a slip in the road?

Have you badgered your law makers about this? Have you called your local DPW? If the is a highway have you called, written, emailed the DOT?

Exhaust your efforts. Take photos and videos and email them to as many local law-makers as you can.

What exactly is a slip?

@Adirondackwannabe this, which is, admittedly, a bit worse that what I drive over every day. And this, which is a bit closer.
@SpatzieLover… not really what I was asking. But thank you.

@Trillian Holy crap. We don’t have anything quite that bad here. We have had some nasty flooding.

@Adirondackwannabe Well, it all comes, I suppose, of eating too much honey. Or living on a mountain. The roads seem to have been constructed with somewhat less thought than, say, the Romans used, with little plans for permanence.
But I’m not an engineer, so what do I know?
There are probably sites that I could look at, and of course, Google. I just thought I’d ask if there were any jellies here that might know the answers. I’m mostly just curious.

How is it not what you were asking? We have this type of thing all the time here. When they haven’t made adequate repairs and there has been a foggy day, there have been multiple car incidents with fatalities.

If it were me, I’d want to know the procedure, process and time allotment for the repair.

@Trillian Be gentle to yourself. I’ve had to relearn that lately.

@SpatzieLover, exactly; I was asking questions out of curiosity, procedure, time frames, etc. Not “What action should I take?” I’m sure the road commission knows about the slips, I was just curious about protocols. What constitutes a fix? What constitutes a temporary repair? Is there a certain degree of slope that is considered “Past the point of safety”?...Just a curious mind working and going off on tangents.
@Adirondackwannabe thx, Will try.

The only way you will know for your locale is if you ask someone @Trillian. The more citizens that inquire, the more pressure they have, the faster repairs will get done.

@Trillian I’m sorry.

@Trillian – how long is a piece of string? Unless you are an engineer and have examined the actual road how would you know the answer to this question? I would also imagine it would depend on weather conditions. A slip might look fine today but tomorrow you get a huge downpour and it is now unsafe.

If there are slips on a road you travel on and they are visible, I think you would want to start lobbying those who are responsible for fixing them asap. Better to get them fixed early than allow them to become worse and even more dangerous.

I live rural too and have a 14 miles of country highway to drive to hit the freeway. We get potholes and cracks, uneven surfaces, steep ditches and low/no shoulders along with lots of roadkill deer, etc. but nothing that bad!
Yes, take pictures and hound your city/state road peeps. Scary!

There has been more roadwork in my county the last 2 years than the last 20 I have lived here. Our biggest hazard that has been responsible for several fatal accidents is a very narrow bridge over a creek and they are FINALLY widening the road this last year, still not done, but in progress.