Pot holes ?

we have developed the most awful potholes and cracks in the roads around us have you any and is your council doing anything to repair them?

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It's the same around here suey. The council hasn't done anything about them yet. Maybe they are doing others, or maybe they are waiting for the winter to finally go away. At least I know where some of them are now and can drive or ride around them.

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Got plenty of them around here. A report was put in the local paper where major potholes are. All the Council could say was it would cost thousands to repair and they would ask everyone to take care when out walking or driving!!!

What more can I say............

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We have them bad up here due to the severe frosts, . . my daughter wrote off a tyre and two suspension bushes last week.

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The roads are awful around here, some serious pot holes, it would be dangerous to be riding a bike of any description at the moment.

The councils are seriously short of cash with ever more money being taken from the budget by you know who. We have a pay freeze this year.

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How appropriate --having a pay freeze! The ones in the roads around our estate have been roughly filled in -at least you don't lose half a wheel in them now

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Thre is one near our home and it must be a foot deep and about two foot across and a foot wide god help any motorcyclist or cyclist that was unluckily enough to hit it there are also mamoth cracks across the road at about ten yard intervals it will cost a fortune when they do eventually get round to filling them same here Mart we have flagged them so we roughly know where and when to avoid them ...Nero can't your daughter get the money back from the council?as that is a lot of damage and will probably cost a lot to put right won't it?

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We have some really awful ones round here.
On one paticular road there is so many on one stretch of it you have to go really slow over them to not damage your car.
Up went signs road surfacing for 2 weeks so expect long delays.
Brilliant we thought its going to get done. But what did they do they resurfaced about 2 miles of road that had nothing wrong with it right up to where all the pot holes start and then dissapeared and left them
This was leading up to christmas, they have never been back to tackle the pot holes they had apparently decided to resurface just the perfectly good bit of road

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Save carbon-get on your bike,,then crash over a pot hole.

Costs the NHS a fortune,oh and yes you could sue for millions with `no win no fee` parasites which councils probably ring fence part of their budget for.

Wouldn`t fixing the roads be cheaper??? and the pavements also??

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We had men up trying to repair the pot holes but when they "repaired" them and went away - the tar just sunk down and they reappeared! A waste of council tax money repair them. They should dig up the roads and relay new roads - would be cheaper in the long run!

I don't drive, nor do I have a car, but it is costly for the buses and motorists as well. Even the pavements have pot holes in places and the drains are sinking as well! Yet our local council, which is SNP, don't bother their backsides. All they can do is shut our swimming pools, libraries and cut back in our schools!