J�r�my wibbled forthrightly: [QUOTE] Around here, I can confirm that winter has a distict effect on the D roads and the communal roads, and there isn't much to choose between socialists and gaullists when it comes to filling on the holes, putting the roads back when they fall off the hill, and stopping or (in a recent unfortunate incident) failing to stop rocks squashing passing motorists.[/QUOTE] It's had an effect over here too. Whilst it doesn't excuse the shit roads in the area of the French run, there have been areas that have suffered quite badly, apparently.