Sinkhole shuts down village18/06/2025 A 3.5m deep and 5m wide sinkhole forced the B4058 Rushmire Hill, the main road through Coombe in Gloucestershire, to close immediately on 13 June. |
Analysis reveals pothole funding disparities05/11/2024 Brighton and Hove has been identified as the local authority in England that received the most additional budget per mile for pothole maintenance last year. |
National Pothole Day sees new reporting apps launched15/01/2024 To mark Pothole Day, Cycling UK has announced plans to launch a refreshed version of its pothole reporting tool, Fill That Hole. |
He's back: Arnie in red hot mess after terminating a pothole14/04/2023 He's used to taking matters into his own hands but this time Arnold Schwarzenegger may have finally gone too far. |
Hunt set to restore £200m of local roads cash13/03/2023 Ministers are set to announce an extra £200m for local road maintenance, representing around half of the annual cut to funding that was put in place since for each of the last four years of the current parliament. |
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
‘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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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