Fix our funds to fix our roads

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.

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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  • Bad Management

    by Richard Barker., over 2 years ago
    From Richard Barker, Chartered Architect, RIBA and retired Director of Tarmac Professional Services.


    LCC look at how you manage the funding you get from Government. Yes a cut in funding does not help, but the waste of money you allow in materials, bad management, poor scheduling of the work, time management of labour and lack of experienced supervision, on site not behind a desk/computer screen erodes public money which adds to the cut in Government Funding. I have seen this mismanagement for myself, in and around Horncastle.

    LCC get your act together rather than blame Government cuts.

  • Bugsy pothole

    by Karan Holland , over 2 years ago
    In 2020 I hit a pothole on little steeping aerodrome , it burst my tyre . So I took some spray cans to it and painted it orange and yellow , someone took a photo of it and I had to admit it was me , I've painted 100s of potholes , been on local news , newspaper like the Sunday times and Skegness standard and on the radio . I've upset the council and ruffled a few feathers but it has had results but they fill in the potholes and it crumbles back out again . This is going... Continue reading

  • Awful roads

    by Goodwin Sammy, over 2 years ago

    Instead of doing bits of the road do all the roads. Aspecially the back roads. What do we pay road tax for.Down near the wash on sea lane, friskney. Full of pit holes. Always see the workers closed they roads or put traffic lights up and they not working on either not there or sat in the vans. After the roada are down do the pavements are skegness town near the shops

  • Main road into Mablethorpe

    by Nita, over 2 years ago
    Disgusting that they have spent the last six months doing a new footpath from a caravan site into town when the road beside it is absolutely disgusting more pot holes than road, one side is subsiding it really is dangerous .

  • Covid & still no better

    by Bex from Sleaford, over 2 years ago

    I have worked from home most of covid luckily but found that when I need to drive the repairs have failed and the only road that is better is from Great Gonerby going towards Belton over the hill. We need to get better at fixing the roads in this county to stop damage to vehicles and help people travel safely no matter what their mode of travel.

  • playing at it.

    by chris anderson, over 2 years ago
    We live at Lissington, The road between Lissington and Linwood recently underwent some "repairs" although many potholes were not addressed, a number of the repairs" done are now crumbling due to the weight of our present day traffic, and remain a danger to all road users, especially cyclists and motor cyclists. What happened to the system of tar and chippings? This system sealed the whole road surface so there were no mid-road edges to erode, and was very effective for a long time.

    Chris Anderson

    The Maltings

    Lissington.

  • Hope Springs Eternal

    by Paul Strong, over 2 years ago

    Claxby

    This month will see the fourth anniversary of the initial report to LCC Highways (LCCH) 'Fix My Street' internet reporting facility and it is not a Happy Birthday. Needless to say it still remains to be fixed despite over 20 reports in the past year!

    So much so that had LCCH carried out the necessary remedial work when first alerted what will now be a very expensive project involving over 200m of roadway would have been easily affordable.

    The whole surface of Normanby Rise is now a patchwork of recently filled potholes, filled but breaking up potholes and unfilled... Continue reading

  • Transport Research Laboratory state "Prevention is better than cure" for potholes

    by Steve , over 2 years ago
    In Feb 2022 a survey device capable of monitoring road condition will be launched on to the UK market. It is capable of finding minor changes in road surfaces so that pot holes can be detected as they start to happen, this allows authorities to rectify an issue before it becomes costly.

    TRL report on potholes stated "prevention is better than Cure" since this finding 10 years ago we have not changed the way we do things and the pothole problem is getting worse.

    Using this specialist equipment, together with the skills in the Lincolnshire Laboratory we can reduce the... Continue reading

  • Potentially Fatal For Bikers

    by Matt A, over 2 years ago
    Like many others in Lincolnshire I ride a motorcycle and use it as my primary mode of transport. Living in a rural County means that travelling by car or bike is a necessity rather than a luxury.


    In all the years of riding, I've never seen the roads in as bad a state as they are now. They are reminiscent of rural third world countries.


    Loose and uneven road surfaces are a death trap for bikers. The deteriorating road surface, potholes and general state of degradation can easily result in loss of traction and a slide/drop that otherwise wouldn't have... Continue reading

  • Noise Pollution as well as car damage

    by NewtonPlace, over 2 years ago
    The B1174 Gonerby Road, between North Parade and the Downtown roundabout, has deteriorated rapidly over the last 2 years. The number and scale of potholes has increased exponentially, due to the increase in traffic, particularly heavy lorries and trailers, following its use as a main diversionary road from the numerous scheduled and unscheduled A1 closures, and the closures of the A52 Barrowby Road and A607 Springfield Road during the extensive railway bridge repairs. Obviously, the potholes damage cars and other vehicles, and the risk of accidents increases as drivers engage last minute manouvres to avoid them. There is however, another... Continue reading
Page last updated: 09 Apr 2024, 07:55 PM