TO HIGHL ARE THEY with you?IGHT...One for the drivers. POTHOLES were said today to be still a big problem

[ScousyFogarty]

POTHOLES? Not being a current driver I thought they would be all filled in by now. Whats the problem? Shortage of money or something else?

How is it on your driving route?

Missing word in headline is HIGHLIGHT

Desperate. Some time ago someone came along with a pot of yellow paint and painted a circle around each pothole - I can't work out whether it was to show the Council bods where to fix or to alert the public to the holes. But one road now looks like a badly drawn series of Venn Diagrams.

Maybe you could ask your local highway dept?

But if there were no potholes, Scousy, where would you live?

filling them in isnt 'fixing' them though.....its only a very,very temporary measure

the filled in bits crack,leaving the problem as it was,so is it fixed? no,just a bodge job

and then once the bad weather returns,they ice over....ice expands....MORE cracks= BIGGER potholes

our roads are badly designed and poorly maintained

When a pothole is reported to the council it is marked and should be filled.

Let's get everyone in the country to identfiy ten potholes to their council!

There are some shockers round here .... we're lucky we dont get ducks in them when it rains!

They aren't essentially badly designed,they aren't 'fixed' by your local council anymore- the work is farmed out to contractors with the lowest prices.

Councils are cutting corners and instead of resurfacing where needed,they are doing patch up jobs of shit standard.

some very good amusing posts. Yes, Tiffany, the filling in will be a temp measure.

I could do the job of marking the potholes. (and let Cogitol fill them in)

THINGUMY..the local media have already done the story. THINK NATIONAL, you Mumsnet bounder.....

To complain about the potholes in your local area-you need to report to your local highways division.

Moaning on mumsnet won't suddenly solve it.

Inconvenient and damaging for car drivers and their cars - yes.

I am a cyclist and a pothole will probably result in my death (she said cheerily).

Local council couldn't give a shit - I've tried.

It makes me so angrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy.

Thanks - all better now.

My council have just resurfaced my dodgy old track so no more complaints here for a while.

ooopsa

have you reported here?

www.fixmystreet.com

If you report it, the council then cannot claim ignorance of the problem ...

Thingumy - thank you for that. I haven't, actually, but my whole local road network is balanced precariously on huge craters that will one day collapse and we will sink into a mysterious underworld.

I have, however, invited my local councillors out on a bike ride with me.

Strangely, I received no RSVP.

This poor man survived two tours in Afhganistan only to get mown down by a truck (not the driver's fault) trying to avoid a pothole.

They're pretty dreadful around our way, but seem to be getting a bit better in our council's area - neighbouring ones are dire.

There is a now a minimum depth they have to be before they get fixed. www.fillthat hole.com is another site I think. Budget cuts means councils are now failing in their responsibility to repair the roads. The roads that motorists pay £50 billion per year towards maintaining