Pothole Nightmare: Half of Local Roads Could Fail in 15 Years
More than half of the local road network in England and Wales could be too poor to use in the next 15 years as the amount needed to fix the backlog of repairs reaches a record high of £16.3 billion.
Actor Nigel Havers joins Susanna and Ed to discuss having to sell his classic cars due to the dangers of driving them on potholed roads.
Broadcast on 19/03/24
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If you're car has to be safe to go on the road, then why aren't the roads safe to drive on.......
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Exactly My Truck is Due A MOT soon,, Well I’m not gonna bother as long as I have checked it over and the tyres and brakes are good working order I’ll keep on using it ✌🏻🏴
South Tyneside never seen the roads so bad, past few year seems uk just fell to bits, why do we pay council and road tax
What a lot of people are not questioning is, our taxes just keep going up but services get worse and worse!! Where is the money going???
Cayman Islands in tax avoidance by the rich supported by government. 1 hundred billion a year. No-one talking about that. I wonder why.
Cayman Islands. I hundred billion a year. Stolen by the super rich supported by government.
Tory ministers pockets.
Bodge jobs and cheap materials
War
On a more positive note uk just spent almost £10 billion on f35 war planes. 👍👍👍 Good to see we have our priorities in order.
Potholes or Putin
National defence IS a higher priority for national government spending than road maintenance. National government and ONLY national government can undertake that task. By contrast road maintenance can be undertaken by local government, regional government or even private individuals.
Half the problem is councils in the first place using poor quality resurfacing techniques like micro asphalt which don't last and break up easily then they blame it on the weather.... If they resurfaced roads properly like the old days they wouldn't break up so easily with a light drizzle of rain. Then there's the poor quality contractors used to fix potholes... we've had a number of potholes fixed in the last month so poorly a week later the repair chunk has broken out of the original pothole leaving chunks of dangerous material waiting to damage vehicles and injure pedestrians and cyclists.
Herefordshire is absolutely awful for potholes . It's no good repairing individual holes . They need to repair whole stretches however painful it might be in time and money .
Extremely bad in Buxton/Fairfield.
Why is it that we pay road tax [sorry, vehicle excise duty] to the Government via the DVLA, yet local councils are responsible for the maintenance of all the roads? Thus it is the payers of Council Tax who pay, no matter whether or not they drive a vehicle! It's all totally unfair and the money goes anywhere but where it should!!
The amount of road tax we all pay should provide plenty of money for road repairs, again where is this money going?
Nigel Havers, what a lovely guy- went to school just down the road in Nowton Park 👍
If local authorities stopped using contractors and used their own employees then the work would be repaired properly. We had a pothole repaired last week but there were four in a very close area but they left the others still there. The reason given was that the authority pointed to one hole. Contractors only do what they are asked to do whereas if they used their own employees they could repair all at the same time.
When he talks about avoiding potholes and driving on the wrong side of the road…..that’s common now.
because its better for our government to spend money on sending people to Rwanda
While that are here waiting to go why don't they earn the keep by filling in the potholes.
Everywhere
Cubby Broccoli made Roger Moore cut his hair back in 1972...😂
Look on the bright side. We kept taxes down for the well off and they can buy Range Rovers.
Yet they still collect our road tax.
Road Tax goes to the Government ever since the 1980s, the car tax goes to the Government to send on things coming from France
this is what happens when the central government cuts back on allocating money to the local councils. there's only so much you can spend and when it keeps getting cut stuff doesn't get done.
Who is going to buy a brand new car and drive on these roads?
Third world
Poor Nigel. Id be gutted if I had to sell my e type jag if I had one
All them ulez cameras and they cant even see a pothole most of these roads are still in the 2000s
Love that HS2 monies Rishi reallocated for Northern transport projects got spent filling potholes in London
The government statement read out by Susanna at the end of this segment is worthless. For years this Tory government has promised that road repairs will be addressed with urgency, but the roads just get worse and worse.
Take all the MPs, politicians, and Councillors money and use their paychecks to resurface the roads
Why don't they just blame it on Putin or Liz Truss like everything else.
Should we be surprised?more and more vehicles as the population rises every year,it,s common sense the highway s can,t keep pace.
The answer is to repair them when they happen and not leave them for year on year,the council's gave never had so much money in council tax with the thousands of new homes that have been built in the last few years,what are they doing with all our cash,because they don't spend it on any services anymore
Sorry
Let’s have a class action now for subverting our taxes
What class action do you have in mind oh wise one? Your turn
@@onlyme219 Tory huh?
@@Stephen0988 No, I don't bother whoever wins, the richest get richer and the rest stay the same if lucky. I refuse to pick aside and get played, how about you? 'huh'
@@Stephen0988 How about answering my reasonable question. What is 'class action?
Potholes are really bad and very dangerous However What about the truly appalling state of the nations pavements Uneven kerbs stones missing Big holes that people trip in Especially at nighttime with poor street lighting Cars parking on pavements that cause damage It must be really difficult for blind people
No, this is the modern Bond. Short back and sides not necessary.
Well, If I was Bond (yes I know he is not real) But wouldn't want my long hair to be pulled by who I'm fighting. There is a reason why short hair is the norm for soldiers and agents
@@onlyme219 But Bond is so skilled at everything, no one would get a chance to pull his hair. Except maybe a woman. 😁
@@beewa8840 No one has because up to now he didn't have long hair. Also, what do you mean 'maybe a woman'?
@@onlyme219 With his fighting skills no one would get close. James Bond has a reputation for being a lothario, so a woman could get close enough to pull his hair.
@@beewa8840 So, his long hair could be an issue?
Well My Truck Needs A MOT Soon I don’t think I will bother I’ll kick the tyres and if the stoppers work when I get to the end of my driveway I’ll head out onto the public highway and save myself £54:85, My Truck is road worthy BUT the roads aren’t worthy of Truck 💪🏻🏴✌🏻🇬🇧 O one last thing it doesn’t seem to matter too much about the traffic indicators not many people use them nowadays 🤣
Wrong, its not failing because of no resurfacing, we've had roads resurfaced poorly in micro asphalt that have broken up within a year so the question about proper resurfacing is a real valid one which very few in the media are bringing up so at least this program tried which was washed away as usual by the 'expert' mr pothole who doesn't know himself ar$e from elbow....
Council's just sit in the office,, and just hand Cheque out, in stead of Trying to get the Males out of the Cab, because it is "Cold, and Fill the hole in the Road,
Where do you think all money has gone
it hasn't gone anywhere, the local councils have had their central government funds cut almost on a year by year basis and then they were told they can only increase council tax by a max % each year as they think this will make the tories more popular.
Where do you think it's gone, Stephen?
@@onlyme219 Ukraine and to the pockets of Donors and Companies Corporatism is Socialism for the Rich.
Corruption
@@aethellstanWell he is spot on really because this what my local council posted recently: The council's total net spend on temporary accommodation in 2023/24 is forecast to be circa £4.6m, which equates to 49p in every pound of council tax we collect.
Well, someone has to try to fill the holes in, I'm in and around Blackpool and it's a nightmare and getting worse. That said I don't give a fig about this actor being upset he can't drive one of his numerous cars around
he probably doesn't give a fig about you.
@@bigpants6121 Obviously, he wouldn't know who I am. I've not been on the show. Did you give yourself a first like?
Ansdell Road is horrendous
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Biased GMB Mr yetti cooper labour mp one of the presenters says it all. 😂
GIVE US A GENERAL ELECTION. Enough now! This country I once loved has been brought to ruin by this government
Getting progressively 2nd world day by day.
How much money has Sunak spent on his Rwanda gimmick? £600,000,000 so far?
Potholes are now a plague. Soon we will have Pothumps!
Why so many blurred images?