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  by Dumbo, about 2 years ago
  4 times the River Eau as flooded The Footpaths and Road on Lindholme taking the top surface down to Susworth. Nothing has been done to repair this mess. Get your act together and get the problem fixed.

  4 times the River Eau as flooded The Footpaths and Road on Lindholme taking the top surface down to Susworth. Nothing has been done to repair this mess. Get your act together and get the problem fixed.
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  by Thea Whyte, over 2 years ago
  In 2023 I had 3 tyres damaged that had to be replaced, at my considerable cost whilst driving on East Lindsey roads, notably the Mablethorpe straight between the town & Maltby le Marsh.

  I use the road fromThe cross Inn in Mablethorpe to Trusthorpe. The road is wavy side to side and breaking up. One of the worst roads in the area.

  
  

  East Lindsey 'goes through the motions' of being open to consider compensation when several hoops have been jumped through but don't even respond let alone accept any responsibility.

  In 2023 I had 3 tyres damaged that had to be replaced, at my considerable cost whilst driving on East Lindsey roads, notably the Mablethorpe straight between the town & Maltby le Marsh.

  I use the road fromThe cross Inn in Mablethorpe to Trusthorpe. The road is wavy side to side and breaking up. One of the worst roads in the area.

  
  

  East Lindsey 'goes through the motions' of being open to consider compensation when several hoops have been jumped through but don't even respond let alone accept any responsibility.
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  by JV, over 2 years ago
  I’ve been travelling around the country a fair bit recently. Lincolnshire’s road are undoubtedly the worst. I actually struggled in Plymouth recently to see clearly in the roads- because they were so clear! When returning from Leicestershire I literally noticed the boundary of counties as I crossed it, the road surface was an instant give away. The funding by government needs to be shared based on need. Many other counties just don’t need as much financial support to repair their roads. Ours are horrendous. Also, have been proven unfortunately both dangerous and fatal

  I’ve been travelling around the country a fair bit recently. Lincolnshire’s road are undoubtedly the worst. I actually struggled in Plymouth recently to see clearly in the roads- because they were so clear! When returning from Leicestershire I literally noticed the boundary of counties as I crossed it, the road surface was an instant give away. The funding by government needs to be shared based on need. Many other counties just don’t need as much financial support to repair their roads. Ours are horrendous. Also, have been proven unfortunately both dangerous and fatal
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  by Kirst, over 2 years ago
  Along with all the other potholes in and around the town, driving through Legbourne the past few days- terrible road conditions, potholes all on the road near the old Cyden Homes turning. I'm surprised I didn't get a damaged tyre, needs sorting.

  Along with all the other potholes in and around the town, driving through Legbourne the past few days- terrible road conditions, potholes all on the road near the old Cyden Homes turning. I'm surprised I didn't get a damaged tyre, needs sorting.
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  by Zipperhead, over 2 years ago

  I used to drive HGV around the area and would report various pot holes and damages I saw during the day. I have just recently started to do the reporting again although I don't work anymore. I remember hitting a pothole in the dark and rain outside Cordeaux school gates and it was a deep one, called 101 Police as to me it was dangerous, and 4 hours after I reported it a red Audi hit the hole and ended up through the school fence, that hole should have been filled as an out of hours emergency! Cost me £400... Continue reading

  I used to drive HGV around the area and would report various pot holes and damages I saw during the day. I have just recently started to do the reporting again although I don't work anymore. I remember hitting a pothole in the dark and rain outside Cordeaux school gates and it was a deep one, called 101 Police as to me it was dangerous, and 4 hours after I reported it a red Audi hit the hole and ended up through the school fence, that hole should have been filled as an out of hours emergency! Cost me £400 about 6 months after with 2 split tyres that couldn't be seen from the outside, no point claiming as they very rarely pay out.

  In the past 2 weeks I have been keeping an eye on some of the reports I have made recently, and quite honestly I am very disappointed in the action (NON) taken by LCC. One fault in particular (although now transpires it is Anglian Water), is a broken manhole in the road by Old School flats on Riverhead Road that was first reported in early January on Fix My Street as far as I can see.

  The manhole frame is broken and every time a vehicle goes over it, it bounces and makes a loud banging noise that is obviously vibrating through the flats both sides of the road. It is ultimately down to Anglian Water to repair the frame, but even though the residents have resorted to stuffing socks into the frame to quieten it down, Anglian have not deemed it to be an emergency and say it could take up to 12 weeks to get the road closed to do the work. That is really not acceptable when the poor residents are suffering this 24/7 so a speedier timeline is needed in cases like this I hope you would agree.

  Apparently if the tarmac breaks up around a manhole and it has been down more than two years, the responsibility lies with LCC, if it is within the 2 years it is Anglian. You could almost imagine LCC letting things get bad enough that it becomes Anglian's problem rather than repair the tarmac before the frame breaks.

  Storm drain grates blocked, reply from LCC is 'we will include it in one of our 3 yearly schedules!!' April to October. Surely they need doing when it is raining not in the summer months, not that I have seen gulley suckers or road sweepers in action around Louth.

  Green waste blocking the rainwater verge on A16, was piling up and starting to encroach on the carriageway, but why was that not being picked up by LCC, do they have staff actively looking around the area for problems or sitting in an office waiting on Fix My Street?

  The worst thing Government ever did was take the old road tax and change it to VED. now that money is going to other things. It would be better if the Highways repaired the potholes instead of bodging them with a bit of cold lay tarmac and running over it with the transit wheels. They did a proper job in Abbey Road this week, but why cant they do them all the same? And do them earlier instead of waiting for them to start causing damage. And do they really need to cut the ditches/dykes so close to the road side, surely that extra few feet is not going to make too much difference to the farmers?

  
  
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  Saddleback Road, Skidbrooke

  by ColetteSarah, over 2 years ago

  I live at the east end of Saddleback Road so it is a regular road used by both myself and my family. The road is in such bad repair with so many potholes and a huge ridge running along the majority of the middle section of the road.

  A recent RTA happened whereby a vehicle was found in the dyke on its roof. It is not a surprise as the road is humped so much in the middle you feel like you are tipping into the ditch especially if you have to give way to an oncoming vehicle.

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  I live at the east end of Saddleback Road so it is a regular road used by both myself and my family. The road is in such bad repair with so many potholes and a huge ridge running along the majority of the middle section of the road.

  A recent RTA happened whereby a vehicle was found in the dyke on its roof. It is not a surprise as the road is humped so much in the middle you feel like you are tipping into the ditch especially if you have to give way to an oncoming vehicle.

  The farmers use this road with extremely heavy tractors, trailers, combine harvesters etc - much too much weight for the old road design. Also sited around half way down Saddleback Road is Angus Energy who regularly have HGV's up and down also which does not help. They were not built for these vehicles hence why they are subsiding into the ditches with a huge hump in the middle.

  At one point last year there were over 60 pot holes filled as it was, in parts, in passable. These were temporary repairs.

  We run a small 5 caravan campsite business but we have to send our guests on a 5 mile detour so as to avoid the majority of Saddleback Road. It is not fit for any vehicle towing a caravan.

  
  
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  Road to Skegness

  by mendonca1966, over 2 years ago

  I travel this daily. The stretch from the old tip to a mile or so past Burwell is an absolute disgrace, with many deep pot holes. In the dark it is well nigh impossible to ignore them and sooner or later there is going to be a nasty accident. I don't blame the Council per se but I do blame the local, supposedly Tory, MPs who do absolutely nothing for the County but who are quite happy to support wasting billions in the Ukraine.

  I travel this daily. The stretch from the old tip to a mile or so past Burwell is an absolute disgrace, with many deep pot holes. In the dark it is well nigh impossible to ignore them and sooner or later there is going to be a nasty accident. I don't blame the Council per se but I do blame the local, supposedly Tory, MPs who do absolutely nothing for the County but who are quite happy to support wasting billions in the Ukraine.
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  by andy-c, over 2 years ago
  Warth Lane near Skegness is in a terrible state. Apart from potholes, the verges are narrow, collapsing and have dykes close by, while numerous kerbstones have been dislodged or out of line for years (to my certain knowledge). It is the road which gives access to Skegness Recycling Centre (SRC) , there is an electricity substation and several residential households so is well used and should be of an appropriate standard. It connects the A52 and A158 and is a potentially useful but presently totally unsuitable connection. I raised the matter with my local county councillor but failed to get... Continue reading

  Warth Lane near Skegness is in a terrible state. Apart from potholes, the verges are narrow, collapsing and have dykes close by, while numerous kerbstones have been dislodged or out of line for years (to my certain knowledge). It is the road which gives access to Skegness Recycling Centre (SRC) , there is an electricity substation and several residential households so is well used and should be of an appropriate standard. It connects the A52 and A158 and is a potentially useful but presently totally unsuitable connection. I raised the matter with my local county councillor but failed to get a satisfactory answer as to when the highway authority will budget for this road and do the total upgrade that is now necessary. When I go to SRC I am terrified if I meet oncoming traffic, I'm sorry I don't have photographs (I wish I had) but you need only drive from the A52 end and the ever-present danger will be glaringly obvious.
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  by Bee, over 2 years ago

  We live at the end of a single track lane (it's a dead end); a ditch runs along the length of it. In the last 18 months, three vehicles have gone completely off the road and into the ditch, damaging the road surface on the ditch side. This was reported to Lincs Highways in 2022; their response was to (finally, in 2023) send workmen to build up the earth at the edge of the road, but did nothing with the asphalt, which is in such poor condition I can pick it off the road with my bare hands.

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  We live at the end of a single track lane (it's a dead end); a ditch runs along the length of it. In the last 18 months, three vehicles have gone completely off the road and into the ditch, damaging the road surface on the ditch side. This was reported to Lincs Highways in 2022; their response was to (finally, in 2023) send workmen to build up the earth at the edge of the road, but did nothing with the asphalt, which is in such poor condition I can pick it off the road with my bare hands.

  I've reported a deterioration in the road using FixMyStreet and the result came back "no further work needed". Since then MORE vehicles have gone off the edge of the road, but not fully into the ditch, causing even more damage. The lane has now been eroded in three places and is dipping in towards the ditch; I now have to drive my car so close to the hedge on the other side of the road that the branches are damaging my car! I've reported again and FixMyStreet now says status: investigating. I've emailed my local councillor twice and left a voicemail message for him and had no response.

  Vehicles which are far too large for the lane drive down it, and have partially gone off the road, damaging the edge of the lane. I am worried that the lane will become impassable, which will mean that neither we, nor our neighbours will be able to get out of the house by car. There's only one way out, so we'll be stuck. No one is taking my concerns seriously and I am fed up with it. We need a sign at the end of the road restricting vehicles which are in excess of a certain weight and length from coming down it.

  We've already had two delivery drivers (whose vehicles were small enough to come down the road) refuse to deliver to us; I had to drive up to the A16 and collect a large, heavy delivery in the back of my car from a lay-by. We're reliant on heating oil deliveries and need to have a cesspit drained - if either company refuses to come to the house because of the state of the road, we're stuck.

  If my car goes into the ditch because the road collapses, I will sue you - I am sick of this.
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  by John B2, over 2 years ago
  I am fed up with, not just the bad state of roads and footway but reporting them to find that little or no action is being taken on most.

  I am fed up with, not just the bad state of roads and footway but reporting them to find that little or no action is being taken on most.