Fix our funds to fix our roads

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Engagement has concluded

Thank you for your contributions to our Fix our Funds to Fix our Roads campaign.

This particular campaign has ended, but you can access the Fairer Funding campaign page, which includes a letter to your MP template, here or via 'important links'.

This is what we asked you. The report has been used to inform future planning and can be made available on request via engagement@lincolnshire.gov.uk 

Council agreed again to fill the pothole in our 2023/24 highways funding from Government. An extra £7m of Lincolnshire’s cash is going into our roads.

Your County Views survey responses, FixMyStreet reports, and this

Thank you for your contributions to our Fix our Funds to Fix our Roads campaign.

This particular campaign has ended, but you can access the Fairer Funding campaign page, which includes a letter to your MP template, here or via 'important links'.

This is what we asked you. The report has been used to inform future planning and can be made available on request via engagement@lincolnshire.gov.uk 

Council agreed again to fill the pothole in our 2023/24 highways funding from Government. An extra £7m of Lincolnshire’s cash is going into our roads.

Your County Views survey responses, FixMyStreet reports, and this campaign is strengthening the case for fairer funding in Lincolnshire.

If you or local businesses have been affected by poor road conditions, tell us. By talking about the impact the lost funding has on you, we can campaign Government together.

We expect there to be further funding cuts in the years ahead so please join our fight for crucial cash by sharing your stories below.

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    Drains

    by bullrush2000, over 3 years ago
    Most highway drains are only being cleaned once per year around April in the village. They should actually be done Oct/Nov after autumn-leaf-fall and most farm-harvest-debris was dumped on the carriageway. This would improve road (and pedestrian) safety during the wet and freezing winter weather. Further for highway safety a minimum of both these 6-monthly cleaning cycles should be done yearly because rural comunities have high farm/field vehicle activity dropping above average debris onto the roads, especially going to the processing plants (ie Staple, Leggates, etc.).


    Why is the April clean made in ignorance of the actual need?


    Note, some... Continue reading

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    Stephen Holland, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

    by Stephen Holland, over 3 years ago

    Over the last 4years I have been forwarding potholes requiring repair that have been noted to me by local residents in Mablethorpe, Trusthorpe and Sutton-On-Sea. These have exceeded over 200 potholes and road surfaces that needed repair/replacing. Most have been done but not all at one time (Were numerous potholes have been forwarded up to 15, only four done) some are still outstanding or have been re-reported. This shows the dangerous contours of this road and still 3 others on same road. Not repaired after 6 years of arguing with Lincoln Highways.

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    Rachel.Martel

    by Rachel.Martel, over 3 years ago
    I have had two cars damaged by potholes. On my last car a suspension spring broke and had to be replaced and on my current car a deep pothole buckled and alloy wheel, which had to be replaced at a cost of £400.

    This particular incident happened in winter on a country A road. It had been raining, so visibility was poor and I was not driving particularly fast, but when I hit the pothole, there were two loud bangs and the steering was jolted so much that the car was flung onto the opposite carriageway. Luckily there was nothing... Continue reading

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    Urgent Funding to Fix our Roads Needed

    by AndyH , over 3 years ago

    We have been asking for our road to be resurfaced for years but keep being told by the Council they don’t have enough funds. We live in a very rural area in the fens and our road is atrocious with potholes, subsidence and uneven surfaces. As soon as any potholes are filled the weather erodes the repairs again or the heavy agricultural traffic just churns the roads up.
    Our cars have suffered damage not just from pot holes but from debris flying up in the wet weather damaging paintwork. The uneven surface has even bottomed one of our vehicles beyond... Continue reading

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    Bad roads can kill. !!

    by John.Fell, over 3 years ago

    Although we are the 2nd largest county we suffer from a lack of a good public transport system unlike the south who can jump on a bus ,train or tram at leisure .We need our own forms of transport for work ,social journeys hence , potholed and poorly maintained roads are very dangerous places for us in rural lincolnshire .

    Cyclists, motorcyclists, motorists , pedestrians ,emergency services and utilities all suffer whether physically or monetary due to poorly maintained highways.

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    M25

    by Brian , over 3 years ago

    Our roads are a disgrace, the Government can find Millions of pounds to erect new signage on the M25 but No money for decent roads in Lincolnshire

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    Potholes Boston

    by Julie, over 3 years ago

    I have noticed Potholes re-appearing once again in their droves around the Wellington Road area of Boston, the repair materials used just don't last, those filled last year have again re-appeared. Boston have many buses running daily along the residential roads due to the into town bus service, this in itself has caused so much more wear on the roads, my son had to remove his wheel in complete darkness due to no road lighting when he hit a massive pot hole along Carlton road last year, this was reported and the repair fee paid, another incident along Wellington road... Continue reading

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    Potholes so dangerous to riders of bikes

    by Elsa Fox, over 3 years ago
    The potholes around Sutton Bridge are a severe danger to those, often young people, without much road experience, who are riding small wheeled 50cc motor scooters in the area. It's obviously worse during the winter months when dark, wet and gloomy and the young people are heading to and from their first job or education. One place which absolutely terrifies me is the island on the A17 with the B1168 (Boston Rd South) which leads to Holbeach Tesco. Anyone travelling by bicycle, scooter or motorcycle from Sutton Bridge to Spalding and who is therefore going straight on at that traffic... Continue reading
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    Puncture after hitting pothole

    by Spence1, over 3 years ago

    Ok so finished work start to accelerate as I approach slip road to A1 off Great North Rd. Hit pothole immediate puncture as it splits sidewall, limp to Grantham at 5:20pm no tyres to fit car in the whole of Grantham, need to ask friend to drive 60 miles to collect me.

    Absolutely disgusting, especially when I then log the pothole on Fix my Street and see there have been multiple reports for the same pothole, I shall be taking photos of hole and making a claim for the tyre.

    Let alone the inconvenience....

    So to add further to this... Continue reading

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    Dangerous country road conditions

    by yadillot, over 3 years ago
    I report dangerous potholes in our area around Tetford generally going out to main roads where conditions are better. This has been the case for several years. I expect that the council have no employees checking on our road because they rely exclusively on public reports which are free. There is no sign of a council care of the abysmal roads in our area. They seem to be more able to pay out grudgingly when a vehicle owner makes a claim to damage caused by unfit roads than to do the sensible thing by ensuring roads are fit for purpose.