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Councils change pothole definition02/06/2011 Councils are changing their definition of potholes to cut road maintenance costs. |
Tarmac and Walsall in pothole efficiency drive14/07/2011 Tarmac National Contracting and Walsall Council have taken delivery of three new Roadmender vehicles as part of their drive to improve the efficiency of pothole repairs. |
Pothole hotline proves a success15/09/2011 A hotline for Middlesbrough residents to report potholes has been hailed as a success by the council. |
Council tells drivers to measure potholes29/09/2011 Drivers in Stockport, Greater Manchester, are being told to measure and take photographs of potholes in local roads. |
Pothole repair study launched15/12/2011 University researchers in Nottingham have been awarded funds by the Institution of Civil Engineers to study the performance of pothole repair work. |
Hull dumps 40mm pothole rule06/09/2012 Hull City Council is changing its 40mm mark for potholes to be officially classed as a hazard in need of filling. |
Artist turns potholes into mini gardens20/12/2012 An east London artist is highlighting the pothole plague across the capital by turning them into mini gardens. |
Pothole claims soar in York09/10/2013 COMPENSATION claims by drivers who blame roads in York for damaging their cars have risen by more than 400 per cent. |
Pothole for every mile of road in the UK10/10/2013 Britain now has a pothole for every mile of road according to new research. |
Highways boss lodged road claim against own council07/11/2013 Essex County Council highways boss Rodney Bass lodged a complaint against his own local authority after a road defect damaged his car. |
Cash boost for road repairs in Bucks10/03/2011 Buckinghamshire County Council has secured extra capital spending funds from Whitehall and is promising to pump £12m of the windfall into road repairs. |
Council fills 220 potholes in one day17/03/2011 Cumbria County Council has filled in 5,000 potholes since the start of the year. |
Roads underspend should be used to address pothole crisis03/03/2014 The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) wants spare funds to be used to help address the UK’s deteriorating road network. |
Amey's road patchers can fix potholes in two minutes14/04/2014 A machine that can fix potholes in two minutes will soon be seen on the roads in East Anglia and the East of England. |
Pothole blitz on Surrey’s roads14/04/2014 Surrey County Council has launched a major operation to repair damage caused to Surrey’s roads by recent flooding. |
Cyclist claims £50,000 after pothole fall12/06/2014 A cyclist who was thrown from his bike after hitting a pothole is suing Gwynedd council for £50,000 damages. |
Pothole sends lump of concrete flying through windscreen15/12/2014 Police are blaming a deteriorating road surface after a lump of concrete smashed through a driver's windscreen in Essex. |
Pothole questions answered in TfB video08/08/2016 A new video that attempts to try and address some of the most frequently asked questions about potholes has been released by Transport for Buckinghamshire (TfB). |
‘Pothole Busters’ take to the roads as councils count the cost of the cold09/03/2018 Gangs of 'Pothole Busters' will be out on the roads of Hampshire 'in a matter of days' as the sector expressed dismay over the potential for the Beast from the East to have done serious damage to the local road network. |
Councils allocated £1m for 'connected maintenance'26/03/2018 The Government is giving councils close to £1m to use connected vehicles to help manage and plan maintenance works more efficiently. |
Should traffic volume help determine roads funding? Surrey renews calls after potholes double19/04/2018 Pothole numbers in Surrey doubled this spring, jumping by more than 7,000 in February and March and prompting renewed calls for roads funding reforms. |
Highways innovation held back by potholes and headlines, DfT director says31/05/2018 The director of local transport at the Department for Transport (DfT) has warned that the UK is ‘not very good at systems-wide thinking’, which could hold the highways sector back as it seeks to develop innovation and embrace the connected world. |
MPs launch inquiry into local road funding and governance01/08/2018 The Transport Select Committee has launched a new inquiry into the funding and governance of local roads in England. |
MPs given five-year plan to remove 'majority of pothole backlog'04/10/2018 One of England's largest technical bodies covering highways has outlined five steps to eliminating most of the nation's pothole backlog in the space of five years in a submission to MPs. |
Atkins becomes a digital broker to beat the pothole problem20/12/2019 Atkins has launched a live engagement phase of a Digital Intelligent Brokerage (DIB) system designed to share knowledge and identify innovative solutions and partnerships to help tackle the pothole problem. |
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