When the inhabitant of PC Towers was a stripling, the school maps still had bits coloured in red, that had once been part of 'the Empire', and my how we used to laugh at 'Johnny foreigner's potholed roads'
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| We Used To Laugh At Third World Potholes |
.... we used to equate the third world with 'broken tarmac.'
Well anyone looking around them in the UK now, must wonder if the joke isn't on us now? Those potholes appear regularly on many of our overcrowded streets, and are not dealt with quickly or effectively .... the 'repairs' often only last a few weeks before the pothole reappears.
Britain's streets and roads are now a national disgrace .... with most councils failing their statutory duty under Section 58 of the Highways Act 1980 to take 'reasonable measures to ensure that problems such as potholes are found and dealt with swiftly'. Instead, most of us rely on websites such as the Governments Report a pothole, or private websites FixMyStreet or Fill That Hole to try and get action when the potholes are not repaired after a few weeks.
We are a declining nation, and this is just one of the signs.
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