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£25m for maintenance on major Welsh roads

09/05/2025

A £25m refurbishment programme to repair thousands of potholes on some of Wales’ major roads has been approved.

Surrey gets ahead of the pothole game with switch to AI

15/01/2025

Surrey County Council is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to move away from manual inspections and solely use video and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to log potholes.

Motoring groups see bumpy picture on pothole repairs

15/01/2025

Motoring organisations have reported a mixed picture of ‘pothole-related’ call-outs last year.

Admiral claims new rise in pothole damage

14/01/2025

The number of pothole claims made to a top insurer last year was 14% higher than in 2023 and nearly three times the number in 2016, new data shows.

Battle of the pothole repair machines is score draw

14/01/2025

Gloucestershire County Council has completed its trial of four different pothole-filling machines declaring that they ‘all have their strengths’.

Battle of the pothole repair machines is score draw

13/01/2025

Gloucestershire County Council has completed its trial of four different pothole-filling machines declaring that they ‘all have their strengths’.

Govt confirms £1.6bn for local roads but new incentives leave uncertainty

20/12/2024

Ministers have confirmed an extra £500m for local road maintenance in England next year but a quarter of the cash will be held back on the basis of an incentive process that has yet to be worked out.

Pothole claims double in a year

21/11/2024

The number of pothole compensation claims to councils has more than doubled in a year, new data has revealed.

Pothole-related breakdowns jump by 10,000

07/10/2024

The number of pothole-related breakdowns has increased by 10,000 compared to last year, according to the AA Pothole Index.

Safety warning as 75-year-old fills potholes

23/08/2024

A Scottish council has expressed health and safety and insurance concerns after a 75-year-old resident used gardening tools to fill in potholes outside her home.

App data 'suggests 11.5 million potholes in UK'

01/07/2024

There are five times more defects on British roads than previous estimates, according to data from a dashboard app that uses AI technology.

Lib Dem pothole cash ‘won’t scratch the surface’

20/06/2024

The Liberal Democrats have committed to spending £300m over the next Parliament to fill 1.2 million potholes a year.

DfT warns councils over resurfacing cash plans

10/04/2024

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 complaints

08/04/2024

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 pothole

06/02/2024

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 revolution

15/01/2024

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 lane

15/01/2024

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 cash

05/10/2023

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.

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