Extra investment sees 20,000 potholes filled in Staffordshire since May
Nearly 20,000 potholes have been filled since the county council invested a further £8 million to fix more roads across Staffordshire. Staffordshire County Council announced the additional highways funding back in May, which has paid for extra highways teams to tackle potholes and drainage problems across the county. The investment is already seeing a wealth […]
Thousands more potholes fixed for Lincolnshire
September saw another massive round of road improvements from our highways department. Figures now in show that the four-week period delivered more than 6,000 pothole repairs, hundreds of streetlight repairs, loads of footpath works and more than 14,500 gullies cleared out. Work across road surfacing and cutting back unruly trees and bushes were also a big […]
New government needs to make funding available for permanent pothole repairs, says Pothole Partnership
Pothole-related breakdown callouts have increased by 2% so far this year compared to the same period last year, according to the latest AA Pothole Index. Last month (50,244 incidents) was the highest September on record since 2017 (50,418). The main incidents relate to punctures, damaged wheels, steering and suspension. Recent heavy rain means many potholes are […]
Suffolk launches pothole prevention programme ahead of winter weather
Suffolk County Council has launched a pothole prevention programme to target areas of Suffolk’s road network that could worsen when the winter weather hits. Teams with additional resources and the latest technology have already started visiting and treating locations susceptible to deterioration or where there are smaller defects that could grow as the colder and […]
Transport Secretary pledges to fix pothole plague after trip to Blackpool
The Transport Secretary has reaffirmed the government’s manifesto commitment to fix up to one million more potholes a year as she visited Blackpool. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh met with road workers and councillors to see first-hand the extensive work being undertaken to tackle the pothole plague and learn how high-definition imagery is used to spot […]
RSTA launches Pothole Prevention Week-bringing awareness to the solutions, not just the problem
The Road Surface Treatments Associations (RSTA)’s very first Pothole Prevention Week campaign takes place this week. The aim isn’t to bring awareness about the problem of potholes, because that is already widely understood, but to instead talk exclusively about the solutions that are available to local authorities and other road operators, not only to fix […]
The hole story: Staffordshire’s pothole focus sees more than 11,000 fixed in three months
An £8 million investment into road defect repairs in Staffordshire is seeing positive results. Since May, when the investment into Staffordshire’s roads was announced, more than 11,300 potholes have been repaired across the county. Compared to last year, the work means there has been a 19% increase in the amount of defects repaired. Added to […]
Derbyshire launches new road repair material trial
Derbyshire County Council has started a trial of a new pothole repairing material as a possible additional option to improve its local roads. The council is using Roadmender Asphalt which is produced nearby in Sheffield. The repair material has a high recycled rubber content (from old HGV tyres) and is more elastic than traditional asphalt. […]
Almost 8000 potholes filled in a month in Lincolnshire
July was a huge month for LCC’s Highways team with nearly 8,000 potholes repaired, hundreds of roads getting a surface treatment, and loads more traffic network improvements completed for the county. Lincolnshire County Council is powering on with a raft of road improvement, and figures now in show a stunning mid-summer of works that happened […]
“We had to club together £26k for a new road” – Residents pay for a new road to cover up potholes
People living on a street in Oldham say they were so fed up with the road outside their houses being difficult to drive on, they decided to take matters into their own hands. A recent TikTok has gained over 540k views of a resident sharing the before and after pictures of what once was a […]