Fix our funds to fix our roads

Write your story and post your pictures here

All fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.

Title *

Description *

Enter your email

Screen name

Password Forgot password?

I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for using Engagement HQ

Didn't receive confirmation?

Register Now

Seems like you are already registered, please provide the password. Forgot your password? Create a new one now.

Cancel

• Wasted money

  by Sheila2468, about 2 years ago
  The state if the roads in places is downright dangerous. Deep potholes, ridges where roads have been patched. Too much money has been wasted patching and surface dressing, only for the holes to reappear days later. False economy!!

  Also when teams are out they only mend bits that are reported, only to make another journey another time to mend other nearby holes. What a waste of time and fuel.

• Leave potholes

  by Simon, about 2 years ago

  Only a 1 meter strip on the nearside of the road needs to be maintained for cyclists. The rest of the road should be allowed to deteriorate naturally. This would slow down the excessive speed of dangerous road users.

• Poor workmanshi

  by Clives, about 2 years ago
  The roads in Grantham are certainly a fine example of the work ethic of bodge it and scarper.Some of the so called “workmanship” really does biegger belief,they come back to the same pothole time and time again,rather than doing a proper job that will last it’s a case of Bodge it here is the invoice! No repair joints are sealed allowing water ingress and another job for the bodgers, it is more like job creation for the contractors.I slight defence of the council most of our roads have been reduced to patchwork of bodged tarmac patches by the so called... Continue reading

• Tyre Tax

  by DonWard, about 2 years ago
  With the reduced road tax collected due to Lower or NO TAX Vehicles the money allocated to repairs is reduced. I suggested to the Government, some time ago, that the loss could be made up by taxing tyres. A small tax on all tyres would be a start. There are not many vehicles that use our roads that do not have tyres, even bikes. It is tyres that produce most damage to roads, consider heavy vehicles, lorries etc. I hope that they have a better idea.

• Worst in the country.

  by Mr. H. , about 2 years ago
  Lincolnshire roads are by far the worst I’ve experienced driving all over the UK. The B6403/High Dyke road between Kesteven Rugby Club and the A1 is nothing short of dangerous when visibility is reduced if dark/raining. Repeated very large potholes have damaged my car in the last year to the tune of three tyres, an alloy wheel repair, and other associated repair costs. This is not a new problem, but something Lincolnshire County Council are simply failing to rectify. I simply cannot accept the issue is a lack of funding, more a poor allocation of funding. I’d like to know... Continue reading

• State of the roads

  by PerkyPenguin, about 2 years ago
  In the long distant past we paid for a windscreen tax disc which went into a ring-fenced fund for the maintenance of our roads. In 1935 that link was broken and our money now goes into government central funds and is used for anything that suits them and very little for our roads. Please report ALL faults to your local council as any damage caused by an unrectified fault has to be paid for by the relevant council.

• Potholes

  by Susies01, about 2 years ago
  The road into Grantham from the A1 is disgraceful the amount of very deep holes on spittlegate level near the new roundabout and new road is beyond belief. All the money being spent on the new road and the Council can’t even fill in the holes on the roads that are already there and are used by hundreds of cars every day -a very busy road main road into Grantham. It’s a joke! The holes have yellow paint around them so the council is aware and they have had paint round them for the last 2 months and certainly before... Continue reading

• Not so much the roads as the footpaths

  by Chris Farmery, about 2 years ago
  The state of footpaths for disabled wheelchair/scooter uses is diabolical. It's almost impossible to smoothly join a new piece of footpath when crossing junctions. Further the studded portions (I believe are for the blind) encroach to far on the rest of the path, shaking scooters to pieces.

• Road closed for scheduled work but nothing has been done!

  by RMJ75, about 2 years ago
  Steeping Road at Thorpe Fendykes has been a drivers hazard for quite a few years now. The odd shovel full of tarmac has been dropped in some of the potholes at various points in time, but they are now as bad as ever, and the general road surface has deteriorated so badly that it's only fit for 4x4's and farm vehicles.

  
  

  I damaged my car wheel there and reported it to the council 4 years ago, but nothing was done.

  More recently, I filed another complaint. I noticed that several other people had reported the stretch of road too.

  Not... Continue reading

• 1x Front Beam 2x Damaged Tires, 2x Damaged Wheels. on 3x Vehicles in the last year

  by Stu Arms, about 2 years ago
  This is getting ridiculous as we will be claiming against the county council for the damages caused due to hitting potholes not once but

  
  

  three times...

  
  

  FIRST TIME, new front beam on our classic car, which was in the £1000's just for the replacement and the rework, £300+ for towing home and towing to garage.

  SECOND TIME we paid for the repair ourselves which included the wheel and tire for our Clio which cost us over £300.

  
  

  THIRD TIME But this time my son's car hits a pothole near between Ancaster and Cranwell and needs a replacement tire... Continue reading