Harrow spending £241K on pothole repairs
Harrow Council’s cabinet has approved £241,000 funding for a new programme for pothole repairs. A new “pothole squad” will be assembled to ‘find and fix’ potholes quickly and it’s bought new machines to save money and fix more potholes in a day. More than 1,500 potholes were repaired in the London Borough in the last […]
More than 110,000 potholes recorded on Northern Irish roads in 2023
Official data analysed by car insurance company CompareNI.com suggests there were 110,023 recorded potholes on Northern Ireland roads in 2023 – an increase of 9%. A survey of drivers suggests 91% of them in Northern Ireland have issues with potholes in their area. 94% of respondents also believe not enough is being done about potholes, […]
JCB joins new partnership as pothole damage hits new high
JCB has joined a new partnership which has been launched by road users and industry to help tackle the scourge of potholes as shock new figures show pothole damage to vehicles has hit a five year high. The research by the AA – released on National Pothole Day – shows that the motoring organisation dealt […]
RAC pothole-related breakdowns for 2023 jump by a third compared to 2022
The rise in potholes took even more of a toll on drivers in 2023 as RAC patrols attended nearly 30,000 pothole-related breakdowns over the course of the year, up by a third (33%) on 2022. Roadside patrols at the motoring services company went out to 29,377 breakdowns in 2023 – the equivalent of 80 breakdowns […]
Luton Council repairs record number of potholes in a year and increases investment to stop them forming
It has been a busy year for the number of pothole repairs in Luton, with over 2,348 filled on roads across the network. The council has spent over £5 million in 2023 dealing with potholes with various patching repairs, resurfacing works and other treatments. In partnership with their highway maintenance contractor, VolkerHighways, the council has […]
Stan The App pothole reporting solution partners with the RAC
The RAC has partnered with a new mobile app for people to report potholes. It says Stan is set to transform the way communities interact with their local infrastructure by providing a user-friendly AI-powered platform to report and address potholes quickly and hold local authorities to account for making good on their roadways. It explains […]
World’s first pothole preventing robot to be road tested in Hertfordshire
An autonomous robot, developed by tech company Robotiz3d and academics at the University of Liverpool in partnership with Hertfordshire County Council Highways Engineers, is set to pass its first test outside of a lab environment, on the roads of Hertfordshire. Using imaging technology the team working on the project have now developed the first Autonomous […]
Microcapsules could prevent potholes, says University of Surrey as it starts new research project
The University of Surrey has started research to investigate the use solar-to-ground heat exchange to prevent freeze-thaw damage to roads. Upheaval for the road pavement sector: could freeze-thaw damage be avoided using solar-to-ground heat exchange technology? (image © Ints VikmanisDreamstime) A five-year research programme led by Benyi Cao, a lecturer in civil and environmental engineering […]
More than 16,000 potholes repaired across Staffordshire so far this year
Staffordshire County Council is making good on its promise to fix more roads across the county with 16,308 pothole repair jobs completed so far. A ‘job’ is, on average, two or three potholes at a time – meaning the number of potholes filled across the county is likely to be double or even triple that […]
Government announces £8bn to repair roads
The Government says millions of people will enjoy smoother, safer and faster road journeys thanks what it’s calling the biggest-ever road resurfacing programme to improve local roads. Transport Secretary Mark Harper has set out the allocations of an £8.3 billion long-term plan, which he says is enough to resurface over 5,000 miles of road across […]
