It’s Pothole Day! Fill That Hole Gets An Update

There’s an obvious soundtrack to this… https://youtu.be/YSGHER4BWME?si=YRg1UXtoWIRxnPnr It’s not just Blackburn that has potholes, and if you spot o …

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“Fife Council doesn’t currently accept reports from third party reporting sites such as Fill That Hole.”

Fife council are useless, they don’t do anything if you report via their unnecessarily complicated website either.

If I were to use that round here on a ride – I think I’d be walking more than riding

Sadly Leeds City Council another who don’t accept the data, but then they’d probably only surface dress it anyway. Or, in one recent case, close the road for two days but not actually do any kind of repair at all…

Thanks @stwhannah

I’ve just used the website to report the pothole sinkhole outside my drive. I wonder how long the most incompetent council in the country will take to throw some stones in and stamp it down?

Banksy Wanksy gets em filled!

Celebrating ‘Wanksy’: the Manchester street artist who turned potholes into penises

Best solution i’ve seen for potholes is increasing fuel duty.

The rest of the country drives on the left of the road.

In Lincolnshire we drive on what’s left of the road.

Best solution i’ve seen for potholes is increasing fuel duty.

Or, using the money already there for basic maintenance.  We managed that sort of thing well in the past.

Cleaning culverts, ditches and offlets each year would sort out 90% of the issues I see driving around.

Im not sure the money is there – have you seen the size of the government debt lately? Finephilly is right though to some degree – the quickest way to limit the road damage we are all causing with prolific and needless car useage is by pricing people off the road.

<b id=”docs-internal-guid-24725e54-7fff-fe2c-f3f4-216736195444″ style=”font-weight: normal;”>There is very little money in local government to fix anything such as roads as the government grant was cut by 40% between 2010 and 2020. There has been a rise in the council tax by 30% in that time, but the total money coming in is still about the same as it was 10 years ago. So with inflation they can only fund the most basic services.</b>

Best solution i’ve seen for potholes is increasing fuel duty.

Thereby further increasing fuel poverty in rural areas.

Potholes are that bad round by us it’s made the news. Probably not much worse than anywhere else but people have been quite enterprising about raising the issue…

How about making every vehicle that is registered to use the roads, pays a tax to maintain their upkeep.

How many vehicle’s currently pay zero towards the infrastructure?

Sadly Leeds City Council another who don’t accept the data, but then they’d probably only surface dress it anyway. Or, in one recent case, close the road for two days but not actually do any kind of repair at all…

TBF to Leeds CC, I reported a pothole to them a few weeks ago and they were round the next day filing in. Its probably a crap repair, but they were round bloddy quickly.