Not only do potholes cause damage to our vehicles, but they can, and do, cause accidents, either from drivers hitting the potholes themselves or swerving to avoid them.
A Sunday Mirror investigation has now revealed the 10 worst places in Britain for potholes and they say road quality is better in Chile, Oman and Peru after freezing weather at the end of February resulted in even further damage to our roads.
Most affected roads in England
Mellor Brook Bypass, in Balderstone, Lancashire topped the list as the worst offender, with 545 pothole complaints made. The second most affected road, bringing in 216 complaints, was Seven Hills Road, in Elmbridge, Surrey, and the A345 in Wiltshire took third place for the number of reports made for potholes, with 208 complaints.
Top 10 worst roads for potholes
- Mellor Brook Bypass, Balderstone, Lancashire – 545 complaints
- Seven Hills Road, Elmbridge, Surrey – 216 complaints
- A345 in Wiltshire – 208 complaints
- Selsfield Road, West Hoathly, West Sussex – 200 complaints
- Main Road, Moulton, Cheshire – 185 complaints
- A595 in Cumbria – 171 complaints
- Attercliffe Road in Sheffield – 169 complaints
- A38 Kingsbury Road in Birmingham – 169 complaints
- Richmord Avenue, Telford, Shropshire – 168 complaints
- The road from West Serstone to Down St Mary in Devon – 162 complaints
Before the Sunday Mail’s research, Asphalt Industry Alliance said 24,500 miles of local roads will shut for repairs in the next year – and it will take at least 14 years to get rid of the backlog, costing £9.3billion.
The Government had planned to spend £296m from the Pothole Action Fund between 2016 and 2021 — enough to cover repairs for around six million potholes — but after the harsh winter weather earlier this year; the government increased it by £100m.
A national disgrace
In the first four months of 2018, The Automobile Association (AA) received more insurance claims due to potholes than in the whole of 2017 and say they’re rescuing record numbers of drivers whose tyres or wheels get damaged by potholes.
Janet Connor, Director of Insurance for the AA, said: “This year we are seeing a growing number of pothole claims described as: ‘car severely damaged and un-driveable’ which didn’t happen at all last year.
“Even the Secretary of State for Transport, who in March announced £100million funding to be sunk into road repairs, admitted we haven’t spent enough on the country’s roads since the 1980s.
“That fund is welcome but no-where near enough. The pothole epidemic has become nothing short of a national disgrace.”
According to the AA, average repair bills are £1,000, adding up to £4.2million, from drivers damaging their bodywork, axles, steering, suspension, tyres, and underbodies, with motorists losing control and having collisions.
They say typical pothole damage involves one or two tyres and sometimes a wheel rim and the damage doesn’t justify drivers having to pay the excess on a policy and lose their no-claims bonus or risk a price increase upon renewal. Due to this, most drivers cover the costs themselves and don’t make a claim.
Councillor Martin Tett, of the Local Government Association (LGA), said: “Only long-term, consistent and fairer investment in local roads can let councils embark on the improvements so desperately needed.”
He said the LGA has asked the Government to reinvest two pence per litre of existing fuel duty, to generate £1billion a year for councils to use for repairing local roads and to fill potholes.
Drivers aren’t the only victims of potholes. The Department for Transport figures show, between 2007 and 2016, 22 cyclists dying and 368 receiving serious injuries, due to accidents involving defective road surfaces.
Action after hitting a pothole
You must decide for yourself whether to put in a claim to your council for pothole damage. In the short-term, it puts councils under financial pressure and uses the taxpayers’ money, but if the public doesn’t make claims, roads may not get repaired when they should.
One member of the public hit the headlines this month after he contacted a council chief about damages he incurred from hitting a pothole.
Claimant, Jonathan Symms, received a response to his email to Sir Richard Leese explaining that due to the council making compensation payments for pothole damage, it was taking away resources they could spend on vital road repairs.
Sir Richard said, in an email to Mr Symms that, “The idea that councils have to take responsibility for every bit of people’s activity can’t be right – or the fact council services, including the limited money we have to repair roads, should be put at risk.”
If a member of the public makes a report of a pothole or the council discover one during road inspections and you hit the pothole before it’s repaired, you’re within your rights to seek compensation but, according to Government guidelines introduced in October 2016, potholes 40mm or below don’t qualify.
If your vehicle had a pre-existing problem, and the pothole made this worse, you can still claim but you won’t get the full repair costs back.
Local authorities aren’t liable to pay out on claims if they weren’t aware of the pothole beforehand, i.e., nobody had reported it to them and road inspections missed it. By law, councils have to carry out road inspections and repairs. So, if your claim gets rejected you can ask to see details of the council’s road inspection reports and try for a reclaim.
If you hit a pothole, pull over as soon as it’s safe and check for any damage to your wheels and tyres and, if safe to do so, take notes of the whereabouts of the pothole and photographs, too — include something in the photo to show scale, such as your foot. If you have witnesses, try to collect their contact details.
Even if you don’t spot immediate damage, listen for vibrations and watch for your steering wheel not centring, or the car pulling to one side. If any of these things occur, have your vehicle checked by a garage as soon as possible and ask your mechanic to put any findings in writing. Don’t ignore tracking or steering damage as both can be dangerous and expensive.
Get several quotes for repair work and keep every quote, invoice, and receipt if you’re intending to make a claim. Even if you’re not intending to make a claim, report the pothole to your council. Contact Highways England about potholes on motorways and A roads.
What condition are the roads where you live? Have you encountered damage to your vehicle because of a pothole? Did you make a claim to your council? Do you think the public should make claims for pothole damage? Let us know in the comments.
The Seven Hills Road in Weybridge was resurfaced back in February/March
The Seven Hills Road in Weybridge, Surrey was resurfaced back in February/March 2018 after the ‘Beasts from the East’
The roads in Elmbridge suffer from being built in sandy soil on the edge of the London clay bed. The roads with problems were not built with this in mind but simply paved over the existing routes when motoring started. Rather than rebuilding the roads in a one off expense, they simply resurface the top level, the soil underneath shifts with weather effects and the increased heavy traffic (HGV’s do by far the most damage) and hey presto need resurfacing. Either that or another developer buys an old property builds four mini houses on the plot and the utilities dig the road up one after another without restoring it to its prior condition, merely filling in the hole and dumping some tarmac on top. It is all band aids to stop a gaping wound.
The Folkestone to Ashford section of the M20 in Kent is particularly bad in both directions
Likewise, parts of the M4 have potholes, which could be extremely dangerous if hit at 70mph.
I doubt if these are the worst roads. They seem only to be the most complained about. Locally we have all given up talking to the council.
Correct! Avoid the B4224 running NW through How Caple towards Hereford!!
in total agreement! It’s unsafe to drive on so many roads because of network of potholes on them. At night it’s even worse.
Typical useless statistics. They are counting complaints not potholes, there might be dozens of complaints about 1 hole. Also to compare you need to have number of holes per mile, these worst 10 may just be very long, or very busy roads both of which would effect number of complaints
If you’re not going to publish sensible stats better not publish any
Seems outrageous when you consider the colossal revenue they get from motorists. My dad always said they spent a lot of it on other stuff that has nothing to do with roads which is absolutely wrong and a kind of fraud.
I live in Scotland so the report doesn’t apply. However, we do have the same problem. I was a local councillor here for 8 years during which I was my (opposition) party’s spokesman on roads. An examination of the council’s spending revealed that for some years 50% of the money supplied from central government for spending on roads was being diverted to the ruling party’s pet (non-roads-related) projects. Given that their policies were dictated from ‘head office’ down south it seems certain that the same is true in England. A close examination of your local council’s spending record could reveal interesting facts.
Just returned from a 2 week holiday in Scotland, and when there read on this site that Scotland has the worst potholes in the UK, so bad that it would take Mount Kilimanjaro to fill them. We were mostly in Fife and Angus but returned to Fife from Montrose via Braemar, Ballater, Banchory and Edzell. (Not exactly a direct, but very scenic, route.) On our way north we had diverted from the M74 through Moffat and over the Devil’s Beeftub to Fife via the new and wonderful Queensferry crossing. (Wonderful driving road). In all of our driving north of the border, we were constantly remarking on how much better the state of the roads are than here in our local Bedfordshire, where it’s pothole dodgems.
As a bus driver I’m aware that many drivers don’t even see me coming towards then, so what hope of them noticing a pothole. Try looking ahead when driving, you may just be able to avoid an accident.
Obviously, David, they don’t see you because they are looking for potholes.
I spend too much of my drive time looking at the road surface for potentially wheel damaging potholes—-Dangerous!
Trying to avoid them and them becoming either the cause of an accident or becoming involved in one is now an unacceptable risk that County Councils do not want to entertain. Their advise is drive slower.
I hit a pothole on Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, in February and submitted a claim to the council because my tyre was shedded. Still no response after four months.
I pulled into a laugh, where an RAC patrol was already dealing with another ‘victim’s. I was the third person in the space of an hour, that night, and a forth pulled in while I was changing the wheel.
As for the councillor suggesting we shouldn’t claim, because it diverts resources, and we should drive more carefully, he’s a fool, to put it mildly.
The hole I hit was about 1.0 x 0.5 metres, about 15cm deep, full of water on a dark unlit road in torrent rain. How was I meant to avoid it?
If he spent the council tax money wisely, and fixed roads in the first place, he wouldn’t get claims, would he? Just a thought, Mr Councillor!
Councils are notoriously difficult to claim against. They will drag it out and fight it until either you give up or they are forced into paying. Most will give up before they are forced into paying
Motorbikes only have 2 wheels, potholes can be life threatening to bikers! Billions given to the EU should be used to resurface our roads
Stay in the EU and you might continue to get the regional development grants such as the one which financed the Heads of the Valleys Road (A465) in South Wales…best road surface in the UK.
Sounds like they are spending all the cash in fecking Wales boyo
Hi WallyB, what a load of tosh Wales and Scotland get everything that they want E.G. free prescriptions, better roads, ETC, ETC and loads more than the Brits so it has nothing to do with staying in the EU, stop claiming leaving the EU for everything. Stick the EU and giving money to other countries and we may be able to survive without the clingon’s like china and India that we give money to for there nuclear bombs and Space travel.
The money we give to the EU is well spent in the UK unlike the money taken in taxes in the U.K.
What planet are you living on? The EU money spent in the UK is only a fraction of what we pay to THEM and the reports of EU corruption/maladministration/waste are manifold – do you not know that the auditors have refused to sign off the EU annual accounts for DONKEYS years?!
Seriously nearly £100 to tax my bike and this is the state of the roads. It’s downright dangerous, not just the fact that could cause me to crash but people are driving in the middle of the road to avoid them and braking hard when there seems no reason. Where I live the repairs are just as bad . They are tar and chuckies blobbed on top which makes it feel like a ploughed field when you drive over it.
The roads need to be properly repaired and not just patched up .
what are chuckies blobbed??
I’m guessing stones
“chuckies” What the heck are chuckies?. I checked with Google definitions and nothing appeared relevant!!
I spend £540 per annum to tax my car repair the feckin roads.
Yes it’s the road laying and repair companies that should also be accountable. The quality of resurfacing and patching is often diabolical. No one seems to bring the repair people back when the road starts to break away within weeks of the work being completed!
those billions were a lie –in fact if we had remained in the E U we might have been forced to bring our rads up to European standards .I have invited Highway council members to visit Germany and see a system which puts money onto surfaces and not into pockets—we need honesty not xenophobia
Cheshire East very poor response times. Also tell you they’ve done a repair when they haven’t. Outsourcing is a real problem with no in house workforce.
I live in pot holed riddled Lancashire Just returned from Hols in the Cotswolds Never saw one pot hole. Smooth newly laid roads. Not patched up holes. Have a look at who’s parliamentary constituencies they are in.
You were lucky! We drove through the Cotswolds yesterday and were appalled by the poor condition of what were busy well-used roads. There were huge numbers of potholes.
I live in the Cotswolds and the roads around Cirencester are appalling!
..and all the knobs live there.
There should be a statutory duty to keep roadways under the control of that local authority in a state suitable for all road users from cyclists to Heavy goods Vehicles. There should be specific rules on length of time to fix pot holes and utility companies should be liable in the event that repairs to the carriageway after they have dug it up leave it in a substandard condition. Surely the roads should be number one priority as without them emergency service vehicles cannot get where they are needed, children cannot get to school, people cannot get to work or shop or go about their business. I would go further and introduce a license fee for cyclists or anyone else who uses the roadways. This should be proportionately smaller however it is cyclists who often suffer the worst injuries due to bad road surfaces though it is interesting the roadway used in the surrey cycle races which started after the Olympics are kept in a much better state.
Bear in mind that pedal cycles cause the least damage to roads after pedestrians. And cyclists are the ones who can stop the most easily to measure the size of a hole. Cycling UK (formerly Cyclists Touring Club) has had an online reporting facility for reporting potholes for some years. Interestingly it was the CTC back at the end of the 19th century who were the first to campaign for decent road surfaces, which were of great benefit to pioneer motorists.
When I had a damaged drive shaft after hitting a deep pothole, the manufacturer paid the repair cost. They said it should not have failed, it’s built tough by design. That is one reason we have an SUV with off road capabilities.
Everyone has to realise potholes do not just happen because of winter.The root cause of the problem is the initial very poor surfacing of the highway with built in defects.There are many reasons for this, but basically councils do not construct the road that is fit for purpose for the traffic volume and their conditions. They are constructed on the cheap, not to the recommended NRASWA specification and will always fail prematurely. Until this malpractice is corrected no matter how much money is thrown away on potholes,it is the original surface that has to be correctly engineered, laid and to the correct specification.
Spot on! It always boils down to money. Do a proper job in the first place and there wouldn’t be these kind of problems. It’s a false economy for councils to think that short-cutting work will save them money.
Absolutely, and what concerns me is that when we are given these large figures that will apparently be spent on repairing the roads, how much are contractors charging for each of the substandard repairs that they make? Many times I’ve seen, sometimes even on motorways, potholes that have been repaired by simply pouring in a little tarmac, which after a month or two is being eroded away yet again, just in time for the following year’s frost to return it to the condition in which it started. It’s too rare that the damaged surface is actually planed away and a high quality repair made.
Just look to the figures for Liverpool council on how much they’ve paid out (or haven’t ) in the last few years it’s a fiddle I don’t know why we pay road tax
I understand the cost to councils, but we are paying duty on fuel and road tax, it is not much to give 2p from fuel duty to the local council to do these repair, why should we the motorists pay for poor managed roads and have our car/vans damage due to potholes, like i said we are paying duty for our road network and they should be fit to use safely, yes put a claim into the council for potholes damage, why should we pay more to repair our cars, are we not paying enough ?.
What’s the point of claiming. There are that many that it could be argued a single hole wasn’t to blame for the damage
It is about time the government stepped up to the line on this matter. Years ago the road fund licence was for the upkeep of our roads as well as paying for new roads. This is not so now as the goal posts were moved years ago and the money was used to pay for other government responsibilities. How about a campaign to force the government into correcting our roads and maintain the upkeep of them.
Roads in Suffolk are already poor and degrading daily. Low priority local roads are reported, eventually poorly patched and because it was a cheap job, they fail again – sometimes within days and certainly within weeks. I have a family member who was employed for many years conducting and supervising road maintenance and he tells me that the way they do it now would have been unacceptable in his day (5 or so years ago) -poor preparation, cheap materials and rush jobs. Not the workers’ fault …
I agree with Dave – we all spend so much time looking for potholes, you’re not concentrating as much as you normally would have on hazards and other road users. I wonder if the insurance co’s have got claims stats showing the number of claims due to potholes that they could send to the government …. but then a lot of the damage is just repaired at the owner’s expense, so not shown.
As for reporting potholes to the council, Devon have adopted the style of acknowledging the issue, marking up the road damage …. and then leaving it for so long that the white markings around the potholes have worn out or been incorporated into the hole as it’s got bigger!!! One narrow road near me outside a school, was marked up well over a year ago….
Well! It was a rare treat to read your nonsensical racist rant first thing in the morning. From the original starting point of potholes and then on to prostitutes and immigrants you covered the spectrum so quickly I was dizzy. This kind of drivel certainly helps me to keep things in my own life in perspective! So thanks!
In my village in Dorset, the council recently repair a number of pot holes some which have broken up within a week. Also the main A road through the village was closed at night for two weeks, at the beginning of the year, for resurfacing and already you can see areas where the surface is breaking down. So not only do we need these roads repaired, they also need to learn how to do a better job. The problem with councils is the only thing they do extremely well is wasting money.
I can’t be certain it was potholes, but in each of the last two years the MOT tester found a different coil spring broken on my car. Repair has cost around £100 each time. I have not experienced this before, in over 50 years of driving. Austerity is a fools policy, it is counter productive, the longer this idiocy goes on the worse it will get!
Yes, the majority of roads in the village of Ipplepen in Devon, (and all surrounding area’s for that matter) are in an appalling condition, and have been for many years. But in June 2015, virtually all the public footpaths in the village were given a ‘makeover’ with some kind of tar based slurry, again because of being in very poor condition. Rightly so, I must add.
My shock came as I realised that many kerbs were being lowered at the same time, by the same contractors for vehicle access to both ‘private’ and ‘business’ property’s for FREE. As I had paid almost £2000 to have my kerbs lowered for vehicle access some 9 years earlier, I was absolutely astounded and disgusted. Not just because of the personal cost, but more-so because I had mainly done this so as not to repeatedly break the law by driving across my previously ‘un-lowered’ kerb and footpath.
These persistent ‘law breakers’ had in effect been very nicely rewarded for the years, or in some cases decades of blatantly disregarding the law. So yes, crime does sometimes pay and the ‘TAX payer’ picks up the bill.
The person/persons responsible for this decision should be held to account. The public are constantly being told that budgets are tight, but in my opinion, this really does take the ‘P**S’ out of everyone.
And we all wonder why there is no money left to fill all those holes!
I’m glad that I finally got to voice my views.
In Norwich I hit a pothole just outside the marked box of a bus stop, the next day a traffic cone had been placed next to the pothole but not over it so you could still hit it, (Genius – Norwich City Council) also I wasn’t aware that it is illegal to drive over an un-lowered kerb to get into your driveway, thanks for that.
I looks like most of the potholes stem from poorly repaired roads when utility companies dig them up to install services if the councils employed the old fashioned clerk of works and made sure the repairs were done properly in the first place the cost of employing the clerks would easily be offset by not having to spend their resources on costly repairs and claims.
The road surfaces are disgraceful, as you exit Wantage towards Lambourn, oxfordshire council clearly don ‘t do road inspections or the inspectors are blind!!!, one day they will have a fatality as someone steers down the middle of the road to avoid the damaged surface.
What happened to the days when council employees in a van patrolled the roads and repaired the holes as seen, now somebody marks the pothole with (Yellow, Blue, or Red) paint and then if you are lucky sometime later somebody comes and fills it in, leaving other potholes only a few a feet away for another day.
How would these councils feel if we all stopped paying our council tax until we got the service we all pay for?
Why do I as a tax, car tax and council tax payer have to pay for pot hole repairs when the majority of them are caused by poor reinstatement of the roads by the utility companies.
Repairing potholes is a false economy, roads must be entirely recovered!!
Interesting. I am in Nottingham and saw the most amazing set of pot holes on a main road leading to a very big roundabout dealing with the A610. Junction 26 of the M1 being about half a mile away. 8 miles North West of Nottingham.
The county council said, eventually, that they had contacted contractors about it to deal with it.
After a very long waiting period of about a further 8 to ten weeks weeks (we are talking about March/April 2018 period), in which huge numbers of cars could be seen slowing right down and negotiating these potholes, several between 6 and 8 feet long and about 3 feet wide and up to 6 inches deep (I took photographs at the time), the road was partially resurfaced.
But only after a great many other people had complained as well.
What a farce!!
It is possible to get potholes filled around this area, but you have to complain and carry on about it and it is, eventually dealt with.
Ironically, amidst the many potholes on my local roads, there are strips of perfectly laid Tarmac , called speed humps. If the Stupid Councils can find money for these, then they can perhaps tear them up and fill the potholes with the residue mixed with fresh Tar.
Disgusted Cheshire East resident.
A number of times I have reported multiple potholes in a small area on the Devon County Council website only for one or two holes to be repaired and my report closed.
I would try reporting 2 holes on each report and then they would not be able to fob your reports off.
If enough reports are open their position will be questioned.
As a resident of Cornwall and a regular visitor to Devon (Ipplepen last week) the roads in both counties need no speed reduction engineering as the potholes seem to achieve the same purpose for free.
Top Idea, repair all of the main through routes and save money on traffic calming on other routes = nil cost option.
Ross on Wye is terrible for pot holes, Cardiganshire and Pembroke very few. Why ius this?
In Buckinghamshire the system used for maintaining roads has failed. Two men in a van inspect a pothole to see if it is big enough to repair, someone comes and puts a white ring around it then eventually a lorry pulls up and the pothole is repaired. This procedure takes upto 28 days once the initial 2 men have looked at it. They only repair the marked pothole, never the one a couple of feet away which they then come and re-inspect…. Invariably the repair doesn’t last more than a couple of months, often less. The white ring sometimes erodes because of the weather so it doesn’t get repaired at all unless it’s re reported. If Bucks re surfaces a road it doesn’t usually last 6 months because they do it with so little tarmac and often it’s just ‘dressed’. They are totally unaccountable and have totally failed the County. They also refuse to repair potholes in cul de sac’s even if children fall off their bikes because of the potholes. If they went down a whole road, repaired all the potholes in it properly they would get many more repairs done much more quickly and efficiently and the roads would be safer, but they will not do it because ‘that isn’t the system’.
I am surprised Manchester is not on the list as there are many potholes on minor roads as well as main roads into the City. Not over impressive for visitors!
Just come back from 10 days driving in Holland and Belgium. Fantastic main roads and town roads. Well made of concrete mainly. Yes in some parts of Belgium where they get a lot of snow there were rough sections but they had been repaired. As usual we in the uk cut back on initial expenditure and then are amazed at the horrendous cost of weather damage
I think you should add Portugal to the list of he best roads–having just returned from a holiday there I can vouch for the fact that their roads, even their mountain roads, are in really excellent condition despite the excruciatingly bad weather they suffered over the winter period AND the fact that they are an extremely poor country compared with the UK.
Just returned from Ireland could not find a pothole on an a road if you wanted one ,UK roads are a national disgrace.
How much of the money given to the council’s has been spent on repairing potholes and how much has bn wasted on unnecessary things something all councils know how to do well. Waste money
I am not at all surprised by this, last year, up in Yorkshire I drove over what looked a puddle into a ly-bye and dropped into an enormous hole damaging my steering joint. We are the eighth wealthiest Nation in the world and our roads are worse than some third world countries, according to some statistics, The taxes that we pay for motoring is a form of legalised theft and the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be arrested for fraud in my humble opinion. He won’t of course, heaven forbid that one governing institution would hold somebody in charge of another !!
Back in the 70s and 80s the cars weaving about on the roads were drunks, now it’s all of us avoiding our third world potholed, illkept roads. The councils don’t care, they believe the poor road conditions slow traffic down and is therefore “safer”
My daughter hit a pothole the other year which required both a new tyre and anew pressure sensor for the wheel. She had previously been reporting various potholes on a particular stretch of road, She wrote to the local council claiming compensation. They first wrote back acknowledging her letter but referring to a different road. Their second letter refused any responsibilty despite potographs etc. supplied. She then wrote requesting information on potholes on thie road for the previous 12 month under the Freedom of informantion act. The council sent her a spreadsheet which was an eyeopener to say the least. 4 serious potholes listed had comments from council engineers that had been sent to inspect them with statements such as ‘deep pothole, needs immediate attention’, ‘urgent attention needed’ and similar such wordings but nothing had been done. She wrote back again listing all these item whereupon they requested the invoice andthen paid for the damage.
What shocked me about my experience of pothole damage was that the car manufacturers are making a fortune out of it. They should not be charging £500+ for a single wheel rim.
I notice that Lincolnshire wasn’t mentioned amongst the top 10 – obviously nobody looking at our roads which are a disgrace to say the least. Some potholes are repaired but adjacent ones are left as is which is ridiculous as surely the engineers can see they too need repairing instead of leaving gaping holes.
The roads in our locality, Cheshire and North Wales are dreadful. both counties probably make claims about the number of potholes they repair, but the quality of those repairs would make your average Cowboy trader look respectable. The repairs are never smooth and within a couple of months, start to break up and become worse than ever. Councils always seem to wait as long as possible before agreeing to repair work by which time the pothole has grown and the cost to repair has also grown. Road repairs, like car servicing are stitch in time jobs. In other words, spend a modest amount of money now, or a massive amount in the near future. We are probably passing a tipping point where the widening gap between the money spent, and that needed to fix the problem will condemn us to 19th century road surfaces.
Live in blackpool. Pot holes all over the place but the council has got the money, over£2million, to spend on fancy computerised road signs which usually tell you the obvious.
Last weekend drove to Barmouth, Wales from Shropshire – starting from here, trying hard to avoid potholes, concerned for the motorcyclists out on a beautiful weekend…..crossing the border into Wales was amazing; I drove along beautifully smooth roads and never saw a pothole! I want to know WHY we can’t have the same? The majority of road tax, petrol tax, personal tax etc etc comes from England…why are we ALWAYS the poor relation? Just like we have no free prescriptions etc yet Wales and Scotland do…it’s just not fair!! ANSWERS NEEDED!!!
2 days ago I was on the Mellor Brook By pass (worst riad No1)I didn’t find any issues. How strange.
Drive in Europe for high quality road surfaces.
Drive in Europe for decent road surfaces.