A new website has been launched to help motorists tackle the increasing scourge of Britain’s potholed roads.
The logically named, www.potholes.co.uk is designed to assist long-suffering tax-payers highlight poor road surfaces to their local councils, plus advise on how to make a compensation claim should their own vehicle be damaged by a pothole.
Despite the billions of pounds paid into public coffers every year, Britain’s roads are quite simply falling apart. Experts say there has been a 65 percent rise in defects on English roads alone during the past decade, with the shortfall in funding for repairs running at an estimated £1.6bn*.
As a result, the deteriorating roads - which latest research suggests can be blamed for a whopping 1 in 5 mechanical failures - saddle the motorist with an estimated £320m bill for unwanted car repairs**.
Potholes.co.uk aims to campaign for swifter and more efficient road works on the nation’s network. As a community-based website it also offers details about how to report a pothole, as well as providing a forum to voice frustrations or offer advice to fellow motorists.
“We want the site to become a public service,” said spokesperson, Amanda Allen. “Motorists have a right to have their voice heard on the subject, and it’s clear that local authorities need help to identify the potholes in their region.”
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Just tooked at their website and noticed the homepage asking "Do you know the location of a pothole?"
I'm hard pressed to think of a stretch of road around here more than about 20metres long that doesn't have a good collection of the things!
Junctions and roundabouts are the worst.
We've got areas where they must have spent hundreds of thousands on Traffic Infuriating (sorry calming) schemes - paint, humps, islands everywhere - all laid on top of crumbling road surfaces without any attempt to sort out the fundamental state of the road.
Perhaps the website should ask whether we know where there aren't any potholes!
Anyway, all power to them - let's hope they can make a difference. I guess it's up to us to support them.
I'm hard pressed to think of a stretch of road around here more than about 20metres long that doesn't have a good collection of the things!
Junctions and roundabouts are the worst.
We've got areas where they must have spent hundreds of thousands on Traffic Infuriating (sorry calming) schemes - paint, humps, islands everywhere - all laid on top of crumbling road surfaces without any attempt to sort out the fundamental state of the road.
Perhaps the website should ask whether we know where there aren't any potholes!
Anyway, all power to them - let's hope they can make a difference. I guess it's up to us to support them.
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Our club does country runs on Wed evenings in the summer - but the bloke that used to lead them, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of every tine back road in the county, has given up. His knowledge is no longer required as the vast majority of those roads are no olonger suitable as bike routes due to the state of the surface.
Makes you wonder...... the poor state of the roads doesn't affect the $X$ brigade does it?
Makes you wonder...... the poor state of the roads doesn't affect the $X$ brigade does it?
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