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Wiltshire potholes are filled

9:00am Monday 14th February 2011 in News

Wiltshire Council highways engineers have identified 1,312 potholes across the county caused by the harsh weather before Christmas.

The tally was carried out by engineers on their normal inspections of county roads and those reported to parish stewards.

During January the weekly number of potholes reported reached a peak of 379 but this figure pales into insignificance compared with last year. At the beginning of 2010, highway crews were filling between 400 and 500 holes a day.

Graeme Hay, Wiltshire Council’s highways engineer, said: “We spent a lot of the summer resurfacing the county’s roads so they were in a much better condition to cope with this winter’s weather.”

Comments(10)

Freedom Fighter! says...
9:26am Mon 14 Feb 11

Yep! they wasted money where I live, they keep filling in a hole which is actually a spring. I contacted Ringway's and told them. Yes the tarmac has lifted yet again.

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goodpuss says...
9:32am Mon 14 Feb 11

2 huge holes have opened up on the roundabout at junction 17, Chippenham - for the 4th time since the snow. It cost someone I know £430 to repair - they hit one of the large holes at 2 in the morning. Couldn't see it until it was too late.

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PaddyObama says...
10:55am Mon 14 Feb 11

The A360 as you leave Potterne has gone back to the awful state it was in,about this time last year....bone jarring ride!

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The Maxter says...
2:32pm Mon 14 Feb 11

Thank goodness I no longer commute by motorcycle, the roads are 3rd world. - Somebody is going to get hurt. Or worse.

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Didymograptus says...
11:49pm Mon 14 Feb 11

400 to 500 potholes can be filled in one day, so filling 1,312 potholes should only take 3-4 days - no problem.

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redandy says...
8:33am Tue 15 Feb 11

wiltshire council may have indentified the potholes, but they have FAILED again to repair all the potholes reported in Lyneham. The majority were reported over three years ago! The roads are so bad you have to take evasive action to avoid the crevises, some six inches deep.

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rrosco says...
11:42am Tue 15 Feb 11

The Maxter wrote:
Thank goodness I no longer commute by motorcycle, the roads are 3rd world. - Somebody is going to get hurt. Or worse.
Having driven in 3rd world countries, I can most defintely say that our roads are nothng like that, even with the current potholes.

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wondering why says...
2:49pm Tue 15 Feb 11

1300 pot holes put another nought on the end, roads are deteriorating rapidly. Time to get your priorities right Wiltshire Council.

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Hugh Briss says...
8:30pm Tue 15 Feb 11

There's two really nasty holes just past the station in Chippenham going into Monkton Park, i.e. where all the traffic into MP has to go. They have been getting steadily more cavernous. I only know about this as I walk past them on the way to the Olympiad where, I am 'pleased' to report, they have repainted the lines in the lower car park - they might have actually resurfaced it to but I'm not sure of that.

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chipsticks says...
12:15pm Wed 16 Feb 11

The two outside the station have been filed several times since the snow. BUT it has been done with a bucket of TAR! Useless. It only takes one car to drive over it and its flicked all over the road again. :(

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