potholes

[LMH]

A campaigner in West Yorkshire calling himself the Yellow Pimpernel ringed potholes in his area with yellow paint. Gordon Meldrum says things are just as bad in Letham, Angus.

 

[LMH]

Colin Williams says this pothole in the Wells area of Somerset measures 6 ft (1.8m) by 3 ft (91cm) by 5 ins (13cm) deep and caused

 

[LMH]

Studland Road in Alum Chine, Bournemouth, is more of a survival course than a public highway, according to Simon Bell. He says short-term repairs have proved ineffective.

 

[LMH]

Bill Thompson's daughter says she almost crashed her car on A809 in East Dunbartonshire, where this photo was taken. The speed limit here is 60mph.

 

[emmerson2]

Do you know, I believe that repairing roads is what our road tax is used for. And some of our council tax. We're obviously not paying enough!!!

 

[AnnM1]

I thought the road tax was supposed to be put towards the repair of roads also, Emerson. However, the roads in South YorkshireNorth Derbyshire are in a terrible state so it certainly isn't coming this way. I wonder if it is going into the coffers of Gordon Brown? Everything else seems to drop into this bottomless pit.

 

[MrsMothy]

If you want road tax to count towards road repairs, you need to live in the home counties or an area with 'international'tourism. The Cheshire cycleway is a nightmare of potholes and I'm glad I wear a cycle helmet because potholes near barbed wire fences in our area can be leathel...I only had to replace the helmet because it was knocked down over my left eye!

 

[colin(bridgend)]

I believe it was the Labour government under Mr. Harold Wilson which said that as the country was in a poor state financially the monies received from the road tax would be needed for other more important uses to help pay the national debt. It has never been returned to the roads in its entirity.

 

[Marc1]

Is it irony that the yellow pimpernel comes from Huddersfield as did Harold Wilson.

Marc

 

[LizCornwall]

Unlike us in Cornwall they are always working the roads,

I.e. Innis Downs, Dobwalls, they might not be repairing potholes, but it's still a nightmare for those coming into Cornwall.

 

[BrianStAlbans]

Apologies if someone else has posted this before but money from the road fund licence has not actually been used to pay for roads since 1936 .

The Finance Act 1936 states...

1936 31 26

Transfer of money from the Road Fund to the Exchequer.

26.-With a view to providing moneys to meet charges which will fall upon the Central Fund in relation to schemes for the provision of employment and the relief of distress, the sum of one hundred thousand pounds shall be transferred and paid from the Road Fund to the Exchequer at such time or times in the financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1937, and in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.

Remember this when they hike the price again.

Brian