They say a picture is worth a Thousand words, in this case it might be true and I think proves my point. sorry words below.
Possibly one of my most successful picture themes last year was Potholes. Sad I know but they are the bain of every ones life, and cause countless damage to all forms of transport, that use the road.
One road near me is particularly bad. It is officially a side road, although used a lot by people travelling between South of Redhill and Reigate.
A year or so ago the council surfaced dressed it, making what was a reasonably good road a nightmare. Now a reasonable proportion of this road is in a very poor state of repair.
This has been particularly brought to light by a large hole that appeared in March 10. The council were quick to act and put cones out and within a few days repaired the hole.
Now comes the crunch. It is February 2011 and low and behold where the previous pothole was, a new hole has appeared, admittedly not as bad as the last, but still there.
Clearly filling holes doesn't work as can be seen by these images, please give us back decent roads, after all we pay Enough Road Fund Licence to drive on them, surely we should be entitled to have roads that are not going to destroy our vehicles.
I realise all the arguments about the money from car tax going to central government, but maybe it is time to look at this again and ring fence some of the money,to give us a decent surface to drive on, after all they take enough from fuel duty for everything else, use car tax for road repairs.
One road near me is particularly bad. It is officially a side road, although used a lot by people travelling between South of Redhill and Reigate.
A year or so ago the council surfaced dressed it, making what was a reasonably good road a nightmare. Now a reasonable proportion of this road is in a very poor state of repair.
This has been particularly brought to light by a large hole that appeared in March 10. The council were quick to act and put cones out and within a few days repaired the hole.
Now comes the crunch. It is February 2011 and low and behold where the previous pothole was, a new hole has appeared, admittedly not as bad as the last, but still there.
Clearly filling holes doesn't work as can be seen by these images, please give us back decent roads, after all we pay Enough Road Fund Licence to drive on them, surely we should be entitled to have roads that are not going to destroy our vehicles.
I realise all the arguments about the money from car tax going to central government, but maybe it is time to look at this again and ring fence some of the money,to give us a decent surface to drive on, after all they take enough from fuel duty for everything else, use car tax for road repairs.
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