Another Day, Another Pothole

Another series of potholes has started to emerge in the area - this time near to the zebra crossing outside the Bay Tree pub in Grove. Not a good place to have a road defect with pedestrians crossing in the close vicinity. I have added this pothole to our monitoring website here and reported it.

A bit further up the road, I am sure that drivers have noticed the series of potholes on the sharp bend at Newlands Drive shown below.

I photographed these on 21 February (left photo), reported them on 22 February and they were logged by the county council on 26 February. As you can see from the right photo, the potholes are still there and the white paint marking them has now worn off. In my opinion, these potholes are in a particularly dangerous position as drivers have to swerve into the middle of the road to avoid them with the obvious risk of meeting oncoming traffic on a sharp bend. Given the potholes were already marked on 21 February, this means that the undertaking to repair within 28 days has already been exceeded. However, given the dangerous location I think they should have been considered a priority case.

Please sign our pothole petition at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P3BPP6P