DfT warns councils over resurfacing cash plans10/04/2024 One in seven eligible highway authorities in England have failed to publish resurfacing plans by the Government's deadline. |
Council responds to ‘Daventry Banksie’ pothole complaints08/04/2024 West Northamptonshire Council has responded to an anti-pothole protester with a computer-generated image of a roadside sign laden with song titles. |
Council sued after cyclist hits pothole06/02/2024 Staffordshire County Council is facing legal action after the triathlete Paul Hughes hit a pothole while cycling breaking multiple bones and damaging a lung. |
Councils 'have tightened pothole payout criteria'05/02/2024 Compensation paid by councils for damage caused by potholes has fallen by more than a half, with some giving out ‘next to nothing’, according to a new analysis of official data. |
Kiely joins AI monitoring revolution15/01/2024 The Kiely Group has added an artificial intelligence (AI) visual monitoring system to its toolkit, using a camera and machine learning to inspect road surfaces in real-time. |
Ministers launch lane rental consultation but roll-out is still in the slow lane15/01/2024 Ministers have launched a consultation on plans for highway authorities to use at least half of lane rental scheme surpluses for road repairs, claiming that this could generate ‘up to’ £100m. |
RAC sees record third quarter 'pothole call-outs'10/11/2023 The RAC has dealt with the highest number of pothole-related breakdowns seen in any third quarter since its records began in 2006. |
Jam tomorrow? No dates for pothole cash05/10/2023 The Department for Transport has admitted it does not have a timescale for the billions of pounds for road resurfacing that it announced on the back of the decision to curtail HS2, suggesting that the claim may merely be a pre-announcement of future routine funding. |
Councils cut back on resurfacing and prevention13/09/2023 The number of miles of road in England resurfaced or given life-extending treatment is at its lowest point in five years, according to an analysis of government data by the RAC. |
Reinstate ringfencing for road repairs, MPs say13/09/2023 The All-Party Parliamentary Group for better roads has issued a report calling for the Government to restore ring-fencing and multi-year settlements for local road maintenance. |
Volker cleans up in Bath with 'road-by-road' strategy26/07/2023 VolkerHighways has fixed double the number of potholes in Bath and North East Somerset as during the whole of 2022, including using an ‘ultra eco-friendly’ thermal road repair system. |
Councils warned over £16m fake pothole claims09/06/2023 Insurance experts have warned councils over a rise in fake claims for damage to vehicles caused by potholes. |
RAC says pothole-related breakdowns up 39%28/04/2023 The RAC has said its patrols assisted 10,000 drivers with pothole-related breakdowns in the first three months of the year, a 39% increase on the same period a year ago. |
Pothole breakdowns hit record high14/01/2022 The RAC’s patrols attended over 10,000 pothole-related breakdowns last year – the equivalent of 27 every day and the highest annual total since 2018, new figures show. |
RAC pothole figures 'a watershed moment'20/04/2021 Drivers are having to use roads that often ‘resemble the surface of the Moon’, the RAC has said after revealing a 37% year-on-year rise in pothole-related breakdowns in the first three months of 2021. |
National Pothole Day survey finds network in decline15/01/2021 A major survey taken to mark National Pothole Day has found that 81% of local authorities believe the pothole crisis has become worse over the last five years. |
Velocity blasts through Brent potholes14/01/2021 The London Borough of Brent has completed a two-year programme that aimed to rid its roads of potholes and defects using Velocity Patching. |
From portholes to potholes: Is a circle the answer to road defects?02/11/2020 Road Mole is an award-winning pothole and ironworks repair system with a difference - its repairs are circular. |
AI robot could detect and fix potholes by 202127/10/2020 Scientists at the University of Liverpool have claimed that autonomous AI robots could be used to detect and repair potholes and road defects by 2021. |
Pothole audit ‘misses the point’, AIA says01/09/2020 A key industry body has dismissed the Government’s announcement of a ‘first-of-its-kind audit into the mapping of potholes in England’ as a distraction from the task of maintaining the local road network. |
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