BBC Midlands TODAY – POTHOLES! 15-01-2024

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We were invited AGAIN by the BBC to meet up and have a quick TALK about our POTHOLES! Our roads are absolutely AWFUL!!!

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Meanwhile outside the Village of Church Eaton what an absolute monster you’ll need a long tape measure for this one Hey Good good evening we begin today with a look at a constant and worsening problem across the region potholes which according to new figures released today National pole day are at a 5-year High the motoring organization the AA has revealed it dealt with almost 632,000 poto related incidents last year causing damage estimated at

474 million pounds across the UK we’ve been asking you to nominate some of the most affected areas where you live Matthew emson from Burton Upon Trent is just one of a number of people getting in touch I think if you’re looking for the road with the most potholes then you

Should stop now because I think you found it we’ve got a a sort of 80 m road called Warren Lane that leads to where I live and the family live and we took some pictures I think around 36 Pooles really quite deep and quite large as

You’ll see in the pictures in a 30 m stretch and uh in the 80 meter stretch we’ve counted over 60 getting worse and worse over the past sort of 18 months or so people are you know complaining having to get tires fixed having to get wheels realigned in some cases tires

Have bur and it’s damaged the uh the actual frame of the wheel we’ve been in contact with the local MP we’ve been in contact with the burough Council and with the County Council whose responsibility the highways are uh and each time they’ve come back and they’ve

Informed us that uh either it’s uh it’s scheduled or um they can’t see a problem well that’s Matthew emson thanks Matthew we’ll have more of your nominations later but in the meantime our correspondent Ben Godfrey has been to South Staffordshire to look at the state of the roads

There John iris’s bik rides have become slaloms we’re right on the border here of staford and shopshire new potholes pop up randomly all over the place this morning sharp Frost has sharpened his concentration because staying safe safe is becoming harder when you’re cycling around Staffordshire how dangerous is it life-threateningly dangerous for a

Cyclist it is for a car driver they’re going to damage a wheel or damage their car Stafford Sher seemed to have turned a blind eye unfortunately on the potholes that are on the road I know that resources are limited and funding is limited but you know this this is a serious

Problem this is just outside Echo Shore and as hgvs navigate through country roads between Newcastle underline and T our viewers say this area is particularly bad and they accuse highways teams of not measuring up this to my knowledge has been here about three months yeah how deep is it it’s um

80 millim deep at that point Staffordshire County Council responded to Stuart perin’s pothole report in December by telling him it will be repaired but it’s not an urgent priority if anybody hit it on a motorcycle or a pedal cycle then uh I dread to think of the consequences north of osore between

Mil me and coats Heath uh attempts have been made to repair it but it’s just simple patching and that just does not work staffer County Council incidentally says over the last year or so it’s repaired more than 16,000 potholes but clearly some would say there’s more to

Do but the authority also says it’s spending 30 million over the next two years to keep highways under good repair meanwhile outside the Village of Church Eaton what an ABS monster you’ll need a long tape measure for this one the average cost to the motorist of a PO or

Repair is said to be between 250 and 300 so on this particular Tire obviously the customer was driving along and obviously gone down a horrible potto which is very rough and sharp on the edges and it’s actually pierced the tire in two places as you can see in there

That we have gone all the way through that’s gone through yeah and that’s where all the air escapes through the tire we actually had one of our service fans that went down a pothole the other day and it absolutely um boss the wheel completely and we’ve just had to pay 60

To get the wheel refurbished and obviously a new tire so don’t worry it doesn’t just happen to customers it happens TOS as well some might call it the bottomless pit because the local government Association reckons there’s a backlog for pole repairs in this country of 144 billion P Ben Godfrey BBC M today

Staffordshire well as you heard in Ben’s report there last year staffire highways filled in more than 16,000 potholes well above the national average of 11,000 that most local authorities achieve and more than they fill themselves in 2022 the Department’s also using AI technology to identify and categorize

Pool for repair no one from the County Council was available to talk to us today although the deputy leader conservative councelor Philip White did give an interview to Kath stesin on BBC WM he told her that as roads have a 20-year lifespan span it’s hard work

Keeping on top of the problem but it would like to do more more investment from government so that we can do more sooner would be really welcome we’re really aware that Council taxpayers um don’t see most of the money that they pay because it goes to caring for

Vulnerable people you’ve got potholes on the route that you drive regularly you want them fixed now you don’t want to have to wait for it and the local Authority currently spends around 80 million a year on road repairs that’s set to increase by 50 million over the next three years mainly

For bigger resurfacing projects what we want to do is more more complete reconstructions of roads where they need it which is very expensive um and more um more work like this where we’re repairing a road comprehensively and then putting a new Top Road surface on it which gives it about 10 years of

Additional lifespan it’s much better value for money and it’s much better for local residents well thanks to all of you who got in touch with us on the subject shaar will have more of your comments later on in the program don’t forget we’re always Keen to hear your story so

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