Nottingham residents make the highest proportion of complaints about potholes
New analysis suggests that people in Nottingham make the most complaints about potholes on the roads. Personal Injury Specialists for cyclists Cycle SOS used Google data to rank the UK cities which make the highest proportion of pothole complaints, investigating Google searches for phrases such as “pothole complaint” and “pothole complaint letter” over the past […]
Industry reacts to £200m highways maintenance spending in budget
The highways and transport technology industry has issued its reactions to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s measures in the budget which included £200 million for highways maintenance for the financial year 2023-2024. The Department for Transport says it is committed to allocating this funding to local highways authorities so they can most effectively spend this funding on […]
Worcestershire County Council focuses on potholes after cold snap and wet weather
Worcestershire County Council is acting promptly on repairing potholes following a mixture of unfavourable weather conditions in the past few months, it has said this week. Between October and December 2022, a total of 1,736 potholes were either reported by residents or identified by highways inspectors and swiftly repaired. It follows the dry summer weather, […]
Pothole insurance claims rise by a third
New data from insurance company Admiral suggests the number of pothole claims has increased by a third (34%) since 2016. It is warning that December’s icy snap could cause even more cracks to open up in Britain’s roads echoing the fall out of ‘Beast from the East’ in 2018, when plummeting temperatures caused pothole claims […]
Scottish motorists “missing out” on pothole compensation
It’s being claimed drivers in Scotland are suffering a “postcode lottery” of compensation for damage caused by potholes. The Herald Newspaper has seen statistics showing just one in six claims for damage was compensated in the country last year. The paper says 15.76% of pothole claims were paid out in 2021-22, amounting to £274,254.01. The […]
Pothole problem continues to damage cars as AA warns drivers of crumbling roads
Following on from the Highways Voices podcast on protecting and preserving the network, Richard Ashton, Market Development Manager for the Bitumen division of TotalEnergies Marketing UK has written this post for Highways News: The AA recently released a warning to drivers to beware of the road surfaces lurking underneath standing water as it attended an […]
Amey uses Instarmac solution to quickly repair pothole
Highway maintenance solutions company Instarmac has provided Amey with a solution to fix a significant pothole on the M180. Due to the location of the pothole, the repair needed to be carried out quickly, but permanently, to keep motorists and operatives as safe as possible whilst working on this extremely busy road. To complete the […]
Rod Stewart invited to spend a day with county’s pothole crew
Back in March, singer Sir Rod Stewart posted footage of him and some friends filling in potholes in the road he lives in in Essex – and now they’ve been done properly by the County Council’s maintenance team. And now the council has invited him to spend a day with its pothole-patching crew. Sir complaining […]
You repair it well? Sir Rod Stewart fixes potholes on his street
Singing legend Sir Rod Stewart has posted video of him and his friends filling in potholes on the road he lives on in Essex. In a video on Instagram the 77 year old explains that the road has needed the work “for ages” but that “no-one can be bothered to do it”. He goes on […]
Scotland’s pothole repair bill hits £1.7bn
Scottish Labour is claiming the cost of fixing potholes on Scotland’s roads almost £1.7bn. It obtained figures from local authorities via a freedom of information request which suggest council repair backlogs would take £1.68bn of taxpayers’ money to bring Scottish roads up to scratch. Labour has accused the Scottish government of leaving roads to crumble. […]