Potholes branded ‘an accident waiting to happen’ - but no date fixed for repairs

Cost of national insurance rise could fix 14m potholes, say Tories

It is the second Conservative attack this week on the national insurance rise due to come into effect on Sunday.

Potholes branded ‘an accident waiting to happen’ - but no date fixed for repairs

A cluster of deep potholes has led to a flurry of complaints to a council.

‘A large pothole damaged my tyre – can I sue the council for not keeping the roads in good repair?’

Query: Dear Mary Frances, I am a farmer in Co Limerick and recently had an issue while driving my slurry tanker. I hit a large pothole on a local road, which caused a burst tyre.

Potholes are back for another season, and the damage they cause could cost you

Jeffrey Balcombe struck a pothole in downtown Fredericton. Faced with a damaged wheel and tire he is not the only driver effected by road conditions. One tire shop says they do pothole damage repair daily, especially in the spring.

JKR says it has patched more than 31,000 square metres of potholes in Kelantan since January this year

The public works department (JKR) says that it has repaired more than 31,180 sq metres of potholes – which is the equivalent of about four and a half football fields – on federal and state roads in Kelantan since January, Bernama reports. According to state JKR director Nik Soh Yaacoub, the repair work involved 21,580 sq metres of potholes on the federal roads, while 9,600 sq metres of repair work were for state roads. He said that when the depa…

Council to test new method of fixing potholes

Burmingham City Council are to test a new method to fix potholes across the city. Potholes may be a councillor’s selfie opportunity – but for everyone else – it’s the nemesis of their existence. The material to be trialed across the pothole riddled streets of Brum has been developed in Huddersfield – this ‘magic mix’ is named ‘Fil-meole’ – or scientifically ‘Bisphenolie’. Fil-meole is basically a liquid resin which hardens within 2 minutes once …