Motorists are enduring a ‘pothole pandemic’ as a £10billion backlog in crumbling road repairs is tackled by short-term and expensive patch-and-mend hole-filling, a damning report reveals today.
The dossier backed by the AA reveals that the number of potholes filled in across England and Wales has nearly doubled in five years, to almost 1.7 million last year.
But the millions spent is a ‘ridiculous waste’ of money as it fails to tackle the underlying problems and is simply ‘plastering over the cracks.’
YES. I KNOW! The road at the side of our house was given its futile, annual patchup last week! Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115172/Patching-potholes-waste-money-revealed-number-doubled-just-years.html#ixzz1pA8RTfb8
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