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Council to spend an extra £1 million on pothole repairs in Wiltshire

2:07pm Monday 15th March 2010 in


Wiltshire Council says an extra £1 million is to be pumped into repairing the county's roads which have been badly affected by the severe winter weather.

The council had already agreed to increase spending on the county's roads by £650,000 in the budget for 2010/11 but has now allocated a further £1 million.

Council leader Jane Scott said: "It has been really difficult to find this extra money but we believe roads are a priority, so I’m pleased that we have been able to release this funding. The weather over the last two winters has been unusually bad and has caused severe damage to our roads."

Dick Tonge, cabinet member for highways, added: "With the improvements in the weather and this extra cash we can use our new equipment more effectively.

"The velocity repairer can fill and seal about 200 square metres of road defects each day as compared with the 18 square metres using conventional equipment. We intend to deploy a third unit which will significantly increase the repairs we can carry out."

The council has been criticised over the number of potholes in the county's roads and have been inundated with complaints.

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Comments(12)

Marj says...
2:23pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Proof reader on hols again? 31 million in the headline, 1 million in the story - which is it?

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blamethebiscuits says...
2:24pm Mon 15 Mar 10

The headline says that 31 million extra is to be spent on pothole repairs. Two things wrong with that: first, it's £1 million extra, the typist forgot to use the shift key; second, you don't repair a pothole, you repair the road by filling the hole. Otherwise, very good job reproducing the official Council press statement.

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boudicca rocks! says...
3:17pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Perhaps now the road through Derry Hill will be fixed, the state of it is Disgusting! they are no longer pot holes, they are CRATERS!!!

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Bottom Of The Barrel says...
3:33pm Mon 15 Mar 10

£31 million might come a little closer to what is actually needed

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BIG BOY WILTS says...
4:43pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Not before time, bet most goes to Trowbridge leaving the rest of Wiltshire high and dry.

What about starting on footpaths to.

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Triton says...
6:44pm Mon 15 Mar 10

boudicca rocks! wrote:
Perhaps now the road through Derry Hill will be fixed, the state of it is Disgusting! they are no longer pot holes, they are CRATERS!!!
I think Derry Hill should open its own off-road course because the high street is nothing short of being disgusting! It seems the council found some money down the back of the sofa to supply those horrid speed humps but ran out when it came to actually make any repairs to the road surface. There was a couple of council men making "repairs" to the high street back in early February but, because of the sheer shoddiness on how it was done, the pot-holes reappeared within a week or so.

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mungus says...
10:06am Tue 16 Mar 10

Could the council hurry up and fix the sunken drain grate near the petrol station on Trowbridge Road in Bradford, please? After going into it, my little car has trouble getting back out again!

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moonrakin wurzel says...
1:16pm Tue 16 Mar 10

I wonder if the council still has any officials with warbal gloming or climate change in their job titles / descriptions - if so - redundancy please or onto the road mending gang - and pronto!!

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I see the WT has ramped down the "yer all doomed" AGW stuff - sad to see all the fraudulent and taxpayer funded "Action on CO2" sh1te knocking around though. It's amazing really - caught out on a lie and still repeating the same - worthless gits - never mind CO2 - what about the O2 thieves ??
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moonrakin wurzel says...
5:59pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Answring my own question - sad eh? They've got loads of idjits employed - tell em to get filling the holes resulting from the phenomenon previously known as weather - send your suggestions to: ClimateChange@wiltsh
ire.gov.uk

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blamethebiscuits says...
6:08pm Sat 20 Mar 10

You had to answer your own question because you're the only person who understood it.

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old bert says...
6:42am Wed 24 Mar 10

Stop this extermination of innocent potholes: Join "SAVE THE POTHOLES" in a demo outside County Hall

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old bert says...
6:42am Wed 24 Mar 10

Stop this extermination of innocent potholes: Join "SAVE THE POTHOLES" in a demo outside County Hall

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