I am seriously concerned that come May when my baby comes out of hibonation i am not going to have anywhere to drive it without the fear of ruining a wheel/tyre.
Down here in sunny Kent, the A20 used to be a good blast early on a Sunday morning, but now, even on this A road, there are pot holes big enough to cause serious damage right in the middle of the road.
When is the government going to realise they cannot keep patching our roads up as cheeply as possible, they are fighting a losing battle. IMO we need some serious investment in our road network to totally resurface most of them. I am sure a little of our foreign aid budget could be redirected!
Well, since only 27.7% of motoring taxes (fuel duty and VED) were spent on roads in the last reported year - 2016-17 - there’s already a bit of spare…or should be!
Is that so?..
Certainly is! Info here from the RAC Foundation:
https://www.racfoundation.org/data/road-user-taxation-highways-spending-data-chart
Hear, hear!
The roads in Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire are a disgrace. Especially bad if you are on a bicycle. Extremly dangerous if you hit a pothole concealed under the shade of trees…
i read somewhere that it would cost £9billion to restore the UK’s roads and take 14 years if we started NOW.