Pothole Management

I regularly drive around Lincoln and North Kesteven for my work and on the B roads particularly I have to slow down and sometimes stop if a vehicle is coming the other way otherwise I would go down a pothole that would undoubtedly not only puncture my tyre but take out my wheel and probably the suspension…again!

I regularly report potholes on the council website and have to say in the majority of cases they do repair the potholes, but it can take up to a month. However, sometimes they say they are not bad enough to repair! Months later when no doubt they have caused a few punctures they are in the realm of being bad enough to repair. There appears to be funding to repair just the severest of potholes and only then when a member of the public reports it. A lack of funding and investment into Highways has now resulted in a scenario where there is no proactive or preventive management of the rapidly deteriorating potholed roads. More money is desperately needed to invest in a road repairing teams that drives every bit of road in Lincolnshire to repair potholes as they find them rather than relying on the general public to have to go to the trouble of reporting them.

It would be interesting to know how many accidents, injuries and possibly even deaths are attributable to potholes in Lincolnshire each year and how this would impact positively on the well publicised road safety campaign if they hadn’t existed