Road safety professionals have flagged that a lack of investment into the UK’s roads is causing a failure to tackle road safety. Limited funding is one of the main reasons that the UK is missing out on road safety innovation, which experts believe is linked to an increase in road deaths last year for the first time in 10 years.
Making our roads safer
At the Premier Highway Event, 60.3% of 2,000 road safety professionals said that new innovation and technology are integral in improving both road safety and driver behaviour. However, 42% stated that the lack of budget available is creating a barrier preventing them from implementing new ideas.
32% of the professionals surveyed also felt that unwillingness to change and aversion to risk are getting in the way of the UK trying out new techniques to make our roads safer to drive on.
(Credit – Darren Moloney)
Pothole season
One of the biggest safety issues facing road users is potholes. They caused 96 crashes in 2016, an increase of 12% compared to the previous year. In addition to this, 467 cyclists were in accidents caused by poor quality, defective roads. Meanwhile, one in three motorists claim to have suffered vehicle damage due to a pothole. This includes damage to tyres and suspensions, which are both costly to replace.
Over a million potholes were reported to highway authorities and councils last year. They cost £3.1 million to repair. The local authority who made the most pothole-related pay outs was Wiltshire Council, which ended up with a £505,000 bill. Westminster City Council paid out the most per pot hole, at a staggering £2,400 each.
Despite all of the money that has already been spent on repairing potholes and paying out for damage caused to vehicles, 70% of drivers think that more should be done. This shows just how dangerous and worrying these road defects are. The situation is made worse by the fact that some local authorities judge certain potholes to be too shallow to fix – one North Yorkshire cyclist suffered a concussion after hitting a pothole, but the local authority argued that the road had passed a recent inspection.
New technology
Prevent potholes from occurring would mean that the money spent repairing them could be invested into trying out new road safety technology and innovations.
Nottingham University Lecturer Dr Alvaro Garcia may have the answer. He was inspired by a surprising source: a contestant on the Spanish version of MasterChef. The contestant gave Dr Garcia the idea to use spherification to create small, solid balls of sunflower oil. These can be mixed in with road asphalt and help to prevent cracks from becoming worse.
The balls work by sensing when cracks appear in the asphalt and breaking to release the oil to help to stick the road back together. Tests have shown that within just two days, the damaged road has been restored. This is fantastic news for local authorities who are spending so much of their budget on repairing potholes.
It has been said that this innovative solution could extend a road’s lifespan from around 12 to approximately 16 years.
This self-healing road research at Nottingham University is being funded by Highways England. It demonstrates the impact that investment in new technology can have on road safety. The innovation is particularly exciting due to its sustainability and environmentally friendly nature.
The price of innovation
Cuts are being made across the board in the UK. However, it seems that not providing enough funding to keep drivers safe on the road is a dangerous move by the government. Road deaths in the UK increased by 4% last year, reversing a decade of improving safety figures. Investing in improving road safety would be more cost effective than responding reactively to issues and could also help to save lives.
With this in mind, surely the government should find further funding to invest in new technology and innovations to keep our roads safer. Doing so could help to keep motorists safe, as well as reducing the need for future expenditure on repairing our decaying road network.
Have you noticed a decline in the quality of the roads in your local area? Has your council been quick to act or have things simply been left to deteriorate? Share your experiences below.
It is not only the Government and councils that need sorting out. A mile long stretch of road in my town was completely resurfaced early this summer. Lovely, smooth tarmac, much quieter to drive on and better grip for the tyres. Within 3 weeks, the electricity board came along and dug it up!. No sooner had they refilled the hole – now with a large gap between the newly surfaced area and their cheap and nasty replacement, than the water company appeared, opened up the hole again and extended it to put a new sewer in. No doubt all of this work had been necessary, but the problem is the utility companies do not restore the road to the same condition and standard as it was to begin with. As soon as ice forms in the new joint, the edges begin to crumble and before it we have a pothole once again.
That has always been the case hasn’t it? Highways agencies repair road, make them nice & smooth & quieter, then along comes a utility company only to dig up that same piece of road & ‘because it is not their job’ they leave the road full of holes. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
As I understand it the council gives notice to all the Statuatory Undertakers then unless it’s emergency works they can not dig up the road for some lengthy period of time(not sure of the timescale)
Yes it is a year – but the exception to this is for emergency works- somewhat surprisingly – ever since priviitasation in fact – all these works within a year are emergency works…
Utility companies shouldn’t be allowed to fill the holes they make, it should be up to the council and they should charge the companies. The council can then be responsible for ensuring that the work is completed to a high standard.
Totally Agree
In Herefordshire the roads are simply TERRIBLE. They’ve been getting worse and worse since 2010. You can draw your own conclusions from that. My car regularly has to have suspension repairs. My garage owner says it’s disgraceful – but he’s not complaining! Years ago when this decline started I said they will never catch up with the state of the roads. It’s turned out to be more true than I ever imagined, Try driving through ANY of the villages near where I live: Shobdon, Kingsland, Pembridge – you name it. And it’s worse still try riding a bike around here – it’s bloody dangerous. The situation is diabolical.
4% increase in deaths – how big is the increase in population and in drivers/cars ?
If we did not waste money and manpower on defence (Trident, Aircraft carriers and their aircraft) we could live in a better country.
Never mind about defence; if we didn’t give an obscene amount of money in overseas aid (over £13 billion last year), where much of it gets lost in fraud, corruption and waste, we would have plenty more money to spend on road repairs and other things besides!
Road are very rarely to blame for an accident DRIVERS ARE EVERY TIME !! Easy way out blame the road no road is dangerous if you drive on it as you should and do not treat every road the same all are in some way different and so should your driving
One of the main problems is the “austerity” cuts – the government willfully ignores the amount of cash they need to give local government to repair the roads for normal wear and tear, and cuts the amount of funding for it in the name of austerity, so the roads do not get repaired properly. Which leads to potholes, and therefore pothole claims. Do central government pick up the cost of these claims? Do they hell! Guess which budget it comes out of? The local government road maintenance budget of course! Which makes the roads worse, which makes the claims increase, which makes the available budget for repair smaller, which makes etc., etc., ad infinitum.. Do not blame the highway authority! Blame the stupid people who voted for the Tories as “financially responsible”, “financially prudent” and all the other lies they were fed, so that they could carry on enriching the millionaire minority by impoverishing the ordinary people
I’d love to agree with you. My local council (Wiltshire) have a means of reporting potholes etc via an App. It’s excellent and you get a response within a few days. I’ve had a burst water main and 5 potholes filled in so far….though the filling in wasn’t exactly a great job!
I had just moved into the area and reported one big pothole down the hill from where I park my car. I attached a picture of it via the app and low and behold, 2 days later, the big hole is filled. The only annoying thing was, they ignored the other 20 mildly smaller ones & 500 small ones within 10m of the original hole!
The ppl filling in the hole clearly just don’t care, they just shoveled some tarmac into the hole, bopped it on the top with the shovel and buggered off. They could have done the same to the other holes and sorted it all out properly, but instead did a half a job.
You moan about AUSTERITY, fair enough, but when you live outside your means for too long, you are only passing the bucket of debit to next generations which includes your offsprings offspring…. offsprings etc. If we don’t get a handle on this now, a bankrupt country is a country of chose!
What does this mean? Less money for everyone and everything. We can blame the bankers, we can blame austerity, we could even blame Blair n Brown who failed to fix the roof while the sun shone!
My point, you can blame the Tory spankers for freezing pay, cutting benefits, reducing budgets for almost every department and causing heartache for the nation. What you cannot do is say they are irresponsible, they are just dealing the hand they were dealt by those formally on power. It’s gonna suck, but the other option is taking on a party who wants to payday loan the country out of austerity……which might improve our roads n services etc, but at what cost to our future prosperity!
For near on 2 decades, Britain lived outside of its means. Unfortunately, to try android put that right won’t be popular, and being someone who’s pay has been reduced by ⅓ and had his pension slashed, I’m willing to take that hit now if it means my kids don’t have to.
Taxing the rich won’t work, they’ll just move their money (& themselves) abroad as do in every other country in the world. We peasants will half to pay as there’s many more of us. The message, grin and bare it (austerity) as you can’t spend your way out of it! Simple maths! #noutisforFREE
Apologies, seem to be some “autocorrect” typos (causing some terrible England and Grammar) in my previous post. I hope you all can understand the gist of my point!
I really am getting furious about the way we, Joe Public are being treated. We pay our money (or some do!!) and yet we seem to get less and less service. One of our local roads was re-surfaced recently with a new smooth finish. This road is really a narrow country lane that has about a 1 in 10 gradient. Mud can easily be transferred from the local tracks and farms onto this surface (which it does quite often) and this in turn now causes great difficulty for some vehicles who try to drive up the hill, let alone going down and sliding. I’m sure that our Local Councils and the Government are aware of these things, as I know our local councillor is, but they refuse to get their heads out of the sand (Gee how I wish it was concrete!). Perhaps they don’t want people to exist in our country. Perhaps that’s why we get engaged in wars so that we can move into the bombed territories and start afresh. Now that’s an idea. GRRRR!
In addition we also have ”so called safety speed restrictions either speed bumps or chicanes. Recently in my local area a motor cyclist was killed because he did not realise there was a chicane in place because someone had removed the reflectors and he hit the kerb and was thrown into the path of a car going in the opposite direction.
They are there to stop the boy racers but actually have no effect on the boy racers
“Safety speed restrictions” – that’s a laugh. Slowing drivers down by making the road more dangerous!
Whilst driving in the dark on a wet country lane my 4×4 which is fairly robust and with decent largish tyres and wheels, crashed into and out of a massive hole that was hidden by the puddle formed. The car was pitched across the road and narrowly avoided a car coming the other way. Shortly after that a smaller car with subsequently smaller wheels did the same thing and had the tyre burst and the wheel damaged. Fortunately the woman driver was by herself and no other cars were involved.
I also drive a Mini style car over long distances and find that I am having to swerve around unexpected craters in the roads. Many of these are trunk roads and the effects on heavy goods vehicles can be seen by the rubber tyre skid marks just after the hole caused by the trailers bouncing over the hole. I know that vehicles swerving to avoid these potholes is dangerous as I and other drivers approaching from behind or overtaking try to take avoiding action, which can in itself cause a collision.
The A34 passing Silverstone was a very good example and it is only fairly recently that this has been resurfaced and with a more quiet tarmac.
Sadly the stories about the utilities companies damaging new road surfaces is and always has been very evident. May be about time that the authorities concerned, who have their budgets to consider, might find they need to put the pressure on the Utilities whose contractors repair the holes that are ripped into road surfaces in such a shoddy manner
Bucks County Council or whoever is responsible for High Wycombe and Beaconsfield roads are a disgrace. Anyone would think we are a Third World country. I have suffered car damage from the potholes. What about the danger aspect. The roads are so bad in places with multiple holes that dodging them and watching out for them is a danger. I should be looking ahead at what is going on, NOT ON THE ROAD SURFACE. Pothole FIXES are a waste of time as done so badly they rarely last a few weeks. Stop phaffing around and do proper ROAD RESURFACING. ROAD USERS ARE BEING MUGGED. Who is making house builders and utilities companies pay to make good their mess? How can a pothole cost £2,500! That’s more like the cost to motorist in car damage.
Time we did a region by region protest with strength in numbers. Really show them just how many of us really are disgusted at the very bad state of our roads.
I think the government has forgot about its ‘duty of care’
They need to remember that motorists pay billions in road tax and petrol vat and excise. They can spend billions on HS2 and send aid to India (who happen to have a space program).
India also have nuclear weapons
It also has starving millions which is below them to help and call our aid a pittance and next to worth less, why should/do we bother.
this country has had it …….
Budget cuts are generally blamed, but from what I have seen there is a terrible waste of the money that they do have. On the road I drive daily (in Norfolk) there was suddenly 36 new drains installed within a total distance of about 300 yards, on a slope (yes 36, 18 on each side of the road)! I had never experienced any flooding on this section of road ever, nor had I witnessed any flooding at the bottom of the slope and there are no buildings in the vicinity to flood either. However, only about a further 300 yards up the road, over the brow of the hill, and 300 yards beyond that there were two terrible floods. Every time it rained traffic would have to use only one side of the road to pass through, very dangerously between two bends on a fast road, go head-on with each other. Lots of stones were also being washed off the fields onto the roads at the same time. I, and others, reported this many times, but it took over 2 years to have the problem resolved. The original drains were totally unnecessary, and to top it off when they put them in they dug much bigger holes than was required and didn’t fill the holes next to them. After reporting these they were filled in, but they’ve turned back into potholes many times since – all on the one piece of road that was okay.
Also, this summer’s resurfacing programme in Norfolk was a disgrace. Seemly all the best sections of roads were resurfaced, while the potholed and heavily damaged areas have been left as they were – I’ve witnessed this across larges areas of the county which I travel regularly and know the roads and their quality intimately.
I also agree about the utilities companies digging up freshly laid new surfaces which people have been waiting years for. These only turn into potholes which Highways then have to pay to fix. Surely it would be in everyone’s interests if there was more coordination of the work that needs to be carried out between the different parties involved – like a national database of planned, upcoming works – it’s not that hard if someone is organised enough to initiate this. For example, when a road is resurfaced that has a new housing estate being built next to it. It’s pretty obvious that as soon as the houses are nearing completion the utility companies will have to dig up the road to supply services to the new houses. How about wait until the estate is complete before you resurface the road. If you had my database up and running this could save a lot of waste. I’m available for consultation 😉
I would like to put Watford in Hertfordshire on the map. Experience truly third world roads without leaving the country.
Use the app reportmystreet for any broken light or potholes
All vehicles should pay the road fund tax regardless of their emissions,if they use the road then they should help fund it, why should I subsidies someone else!
Mr Osbourne in is budget the put the road tax up from 01/04/17 said the extra money would be used sole for roads so we will see if it happens
The roads are nearing the standards of a third world country …
Transport is a crucial part of our day to day business and we have a government who are simply neglecting the arteries of UK transportation …
Previous comments regarding the utilities companies who more often than not use third party ground work companies, who obviously are not held to account for their operating standards.
They should be made to return and repair their work because as agreed by others on this forum … the utility companies have a lot to answer for the patchy repairs, I’ve seen areas locally that have had cables and pipes laid and within a couple of months the edges of joins are breaking up and as we get into early winter the larger gaps are now appearing and onew of the real dangers is where the ground has become a severe depression which i hAve whotnessed a car being thrown offline suppose the driver being unaware and is an accident waiting to happen, and this is on the main Nottingham inner road … beware!
Utility companies should be made to repair their sub standard work at their costs and pass on that cost to the third party ground works businesses.
Its a disgrace!
Really good topic
It is not only the Government and councils that need sorting out. A mile long stretch of road in my town was completely resurfaced early this summer. Lovely, smooth tarmac, much quieter to drive on and better grip for the tyres. Within 3 weeks, the electricity board came along and dug it up!. No sooner had they refilled the hole – now with a large gap between the newly surfaced area and their cheap and nasty replacement, than the water company appeared, opened up the hole again and extended it to put a new sewer in. No doubt all of this work had been necessary, but the problem is the utility companies do not restore the road to the same condition and standard as it was to begin with. As soon as ice forms in the new joint, the edges begin to crumble and before it we have a pothole once again.
That has always been the case hasn’t it? Highways agencies repair road, make them nice & smooth & quieter, then along comes a utility company only to dig up that same piece of road & ‘because it is not their job’ they leave the road full of holes. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
As I understand it the council gives notice to all the Statuatory Undertakers then unless it’s emergency works they can not dig up the road for some lengthy period of time(not sure of the timescale)
Yes it is a year – but the exception to this is for emergency works- somewhat surprisingly – ever since priviitasation in fact – all these works within a year are emergency works…
Utility companies shouldn’t be allowed to fill the holes they make, it should be up to the council and they should charge the companies. The council can then be responsible for ensuring that the work is completed to a high standard.
Totally Agree
In Herefordshire the roads are simply TERRIBLE. They’ve been getting worse and worse since 2010. You can draw your own conclusions from that. My car regularly has to have suspension repairs. My garage owner says it’s disgraceful – but he’s not complaining! Years ago when this decline started I said they will never catch up with the state of the roads. It’s turned out to be more true than I ever imagined, Try driving through ANY of the villages near where I live: Shobdon, Kingsland, Pembridge – you name it. And it’s worse still try riding a bike around here – it’s bloody dangerous. The situation is diabolical.
4% increase in deaths – how big is the increase in population and in drivers/cars ?
If we did not waste money and manpower on defence (Trident, Aircraft carriers and their aircraft) we could live in a better country.
Never mind about defence; if we didn’t give an obscene amount of money in overseas aid (over £13 billion last year), where much of it gets lost in fraud, corruption and waste, we would have plenty more money to spend on road repairs and other things besides!
Road are very rarely to blame for an accident DRIVERS ARE EVERY TIME !! Easy way out blame the road no road is dangerous if you drive on it as you should and do not treat every road the same all are in some way different and so should your driving
One of the main problems is the “austerity” cuts – the government willfully ignores the amount of cash they need to give local government to repair the roads for normal wear and tear, and cuts the amount of funding for it in the name of austerity, so the roads do not get repaired properly. Which leads to potholes, and therefore pothole claims. Do central government pick up the cost of these claims? Do they hell! Guess which budget it comes out of? The local government road maintenance budget of course! Which makes the roads worse, which makes the claims increase, which makes the available budget for repair smaller, which makes etc., etc., ad infinitum.. Do not blame the highway authority! Blame the stupid people who voted for the Tories as “financially responsible”, “financially prudent” and all the other lies they were fed, so that they could carry on enriching the millionaire minority by impoverishing the ordinary people
I’d love to agree with you. My local council (Wiltshire) have a means of reporting potholes etc via an App. It’s excellent and you get a response within a few days. I’ve had a burst water main and 5 potholes filled in so far….though the filling in wasn’t exactly a great job!
I had just moved into the area and reported one big pothole down the hill from where I park my car. I attached a picture of it via the app and low and behold, 2 days later, the big hole is filled. The only annoying thing was, they ignored the other 20 mildly smaller ones & 500 small ones within 10m of the original hole!
The ppl filling in the hole clearly just don’t care, they just shoveled some tarmac into the hole, bopped it on the top with the shovel and buggered off. They could have done the same to the other holes and sorted it all out properly, but instead did a half a job.
You moan about AUSTERITY, fair enough, but when you live outside your means for too long, you are only passing the bucket of debit to next generations which includes your offsprings offspring…. offsprings etc. If we don’t get a handle on this now, a bankrupt country is a country of chose!
What does this mean? Less money for everyone and everything. We can blame the bankers, we can blame austerity, we could even blame Blair n Brown who failed to fix the roof while the sun shone!
My point, you can blame the Tory spankers for freezing pay, cutting benefits, reducing budgets for almost every department and causing heartache for the nation. What you cannot do is say they are irresponsible, they are just dealing the hand they were dealt by those formally on power. It’s gonna suck, but the other option is taking on a party who wants to payday loan the country out of austerity……which might improve our roads n services etc, but at what cost to our future prosperity!
For near on 2 decades, Britain lived outside of its means. Unfortunately, to try android put that right won’t be popular, and being someone who’s pay has been reduced by ⅓ and had his pension slashed, I’m willing to take that hit now if it means my kids don’t have to.
Taxing the rich won’t work, they’ll just move their money (& themselves) abroad as do in every other country in the world. We peasants will half to pay as there’s many more of us. The message, grin and bare it (austerity) as you can’t spend your way out of it! Simple maths! #noutisforFREE
Apologies, seem to be some “autocorrect” typos (causing some terrible England and Grammar) in my previous post. I hope you all can understand the gist of my point!
I really am getting furious about the way we, Joe Public are being treated. We pay our money (or some do!!) and yet we seem to get less and less service. One of our local roads was re-surfaced recently with a new smooth finish. This road is really a narrow country lane that has about a 1 in 10 gradient. Mud can easily be transferred from the local tracks and farms onto this surface (which it does quite often) and this in turn now causes great difficulty for some vehicles who try to drive up the hill, let alone going down and sliding. I’m sure that our Local Councils and the Government are aware of these things, as I know our local councillor is, but they refuse to get their heads out of the sand (Gee how I wish it was concrete!). Perhaps they don’t want people to exist in our country. Perhaps that’s why we get engaged in wars so that we can move into the bombed territories and start afresh. Now that’s an idea. GRRRR!
In addition we also have ”so called safety speed restrictions either speed bumps or chicanes. Recently in my local area a motor cyclist was killed because he did not realise there was a chicane in place because someone had removed the reflectors and he hit the kerb and was thrown into the path of a car going in the opposite direction.
They are there to stop the boy racers but actually have no effect on the boy racers
“Safety speed restrictions” – that’s a laugh. Slowing drivers down by making the road more dangerous!
Whilst driving in the dark on a wet country lane my 4×4 which is fairly robust and with decent largish tyres and wheels, crashed into and out of a massive hole that was hidden by the puddle formed. The car was pitched across the road and narrowly avoided a car coming the other way. Shortly after that a smaller car with subsequently smaller wheels did the same thing and had the tyre burst and the wheel damaged. Fortunately the woman driver was by herself and no other cars were involved.
I also drive a Mini style car over long distances and find that I am having to swerve around unexpected craters in the roads. Many of these are trunk roads and the effects on heavy goods vehicles can be seen by the rubber tyre skid marks just after the hole caused by the trailers bouncing over the hole. I know that vehicles swerving to avoid these potholes is dangerous as I and other drivers approaching from behind or overtaking try to take avoiding action, which can in itself cause a collision.
The A34 passing Silverstone was a very good example and it is only fairly recently that this has been resurfaced and with a more quiet tarmac.
Sadly the stories about the utilities companies damaging new road surfaces is and always has been very evident. May be about time that the authorities concerned, who have their budgets to consider, might find they need to put the pressure on the Utilities whose contractors repair the holes that are ripped into road surfaces in such a shoddy manner
Bucks County Council or whoever is responsible for High Wycombe and Beaconsfield roads are a disgrace. Anyone would think we are a Third World country. I have suffered car damage from the potholes. What about the danger aspect. The roads are so bad in places with multiple holes that dodging them and watching out for them is a danger. I should be looking ahead at what is going on, NOT ON THE ROAD SURFACE. Pothole FIXES are a waste of time as done so badly they rarely last a few weeks. Stop phaffing around and do proper ROAD RESURFACING. ROAD USERS ARE BEING MUGGED. Who is making house builders and utilities companies pay to make good their mess? How can a pothole cost £2,500! That’s more like the cost to motorist in car damage.
Time we did a region by region protest with strength in numbers. Really show them just how many of us really are disgusted at the very bad state of our roads.
I think the government has forgot about its ‘duty of care’
They need to remember that motorists pay billions in road tax and petrol vat and excise. They can spend billions on HS2 and send aid to India (who happen to have a space program).
India also have nuclear weapons
It also has starving millions which is below them to help and call our aid a pittance and next to worth less, why should/do we bother.
this country has had it …….
Budget cuts are generally blamed, but from what I have seen there is a terrible waste of the money that they do have. On the road I drive daily (in Norfolk) there was suddenly 36 new drains installed within a total distance of about 300 yards, on a slope (yes 36, 18 on each side of the road)! I had never experienced any flooding on this section of road ever, nor had I witnessed any flooding at the bottom of the slope and there are no buildings in the vicinity to flood either. However, only about a further 300 yards up the road, over the brow of the hill, and 300 yards beyond that there were two terrible floods. Every time it rained traffic would have to use only one side of the road to pass through, very dangerously between two bends on a fast road, go head-on with each other. Lots of stones were also being washed off the fields onto the roads at the same time. I, and others, reported this many times, but it took over 2 years to have the problem resolved. The original drains were totally unnecessary, and to top it off when they put them in they dug much bigger holes than was required and didn’t fill the holes next to them. After reporting these they were filled in, but they’ve turned back into potholes many times since – all on the one piece of road that was okay.
Also, this summer’s resurfacing programme in Norfolk was a disgrace. Seemly all the best sections of roads were resurfaced, while the potholed and heavily damaged areas have been left as they were – I’ve witnessed this across larges areas of the county which I travel regularly and know the roads and their quality intimately.
I also agree about the utilities companies digging up freshly laid new surfaces which people have been waiting years for. These only turn into potholes which Highways then have to pay to fix. Surely it would be in everyone’s interests if there was more coordination of the work that needs to be carried out between the different parties involved – like a national database of planned, upcoming works – it’s not that hard if someone is organised enough to initiate this. For example, when a road is resurfaced that has a new housing estate being built next to it. It’s pretty obvious that as soon as the houses are nearing completion the utility companies will have to dig up the road to supply services to the new houses. How about wait until the estate is complete before you resurface the road. If you had my database up and running this could save a lot of waste. I’m available for consultation 😉
I would like to put Watford in Hertfordshire on the map. Experience truly third world roads without leaving the country.
Use the app reportmystreet for any broken light or potholes
All vehicles should pay the road fund tax regardless of their emissions,if they use the road then they should help fund it, why should I subsidies someone else!
Mr Osbourne in is budget the put the road tax up from 01/04/17 said the extra money would be used sole for roads so we will see if it happens
The roads are nearing the standards of a third world country …
Transport is a crucial part of our day to day business and we have a government who are simply neglecting the arteries of UK transportation …
Previous comments regarding the utilities companies who more often than not use third party ground work companies, who obviously are not held to account for their operating standards.
They should be made to return and repair their work because as agreed by others on this forum … the utility companies have a lot to answer for the patchy repairs, I’ve seen areas locally that have had cables and pipes laid and within a couple of months the edges of joins are breaking up and as we get into early winter the larger gaps are now appearing and onew of the real dangers is where the ground has become a severe depression which i hAve whotnessed a car being thrown offline suppose the driver being unaware and is an accident waiting to happen, and this is on the main Nottingham inner road … beware!
Utility companies should be made to repair their sub standard work at their costs and pass on that cost to the third party ground works businesses.
Its a disgrace!
Really good topic