POT HOLE NUMBERS
Not one of ours thankfully.
Always of interest so far this year we (Kirklees) have had 17,443 pot holes reported to us. At the same time we have repaired 23,744.
This is in comparison to 20,111 reported and 21,227fixed last year and 19,820 and 22,880 the year before.
The consistency of the numbers accurately display the fact that we are only holding our own, this is reflected nationally as funding for highways has been cut to the bone. This is at the same time as central government take a massive amount from drivers from fuel tax, VAT, Insurance Tax and Road Tax. If a small percentage of what is collected from drivers locally was put back into the roads, we could start to get on top of the problem.
A problem that is not helped in the current year by the increase in holes dug by the utilities.
