Fuming Gedling borough motorists are calling councillors and the MPs to account on social media as the state of the roads continues to leave drivers with eye-watering bills due to copious amounts of potholes.
The issue has escalated into such a problem that a Facebook group has been launched titled ‘Gedling Borough Potholes‘.
The new group page is being used to alert drivers about the worst affected areas across the borough with pictures of the crumbling and deep craters that can be found across all areas of the borough being posted by fuming motorists daily.
One outraged driver from Arnold told the group that his family have had to replace four car tyres over the past six weeks.
They wrote: “The roads around Arnold are becoming in a sorry state of repair to a point where some roads are becoming undrivable.”
Another driver warned other members to avoid parts of Valley Road.
They posted: “One road to be careful for is Valley Road, between Marshall Hill Drive and Foxhill Road… every little bad weather seems to create more potholes and they’re always really big!”
All roads across the borough are managed by Nottinghamshire County Council.
It was announced back in November that the authority would be handed an extra £138m by the Government to maintain its roads over the next decade – but council officials said it’s still not enough.
This extra funding will go towards problems such as potholes in an ongoing repairs schedule, as well as winter damage and clearing gulleys to ease flooding.
Nottinghamshire County Council will be given another £138m over the full period, although this starts in much smaller chunks of £2.3m for 2023/24 and 2024/25.
Following the announcement back in November, Councillor Neil Clarke (Con), the cabinet member for transport and environment at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “The money that we have received is very welcome but there’s always room for more.
“We’ve received £4.7m over the next 18 months, which will enable us to keep our strategy going for large patch repairs and keep our roads maintained.
“A lot of the money is for pothole repairs, but also it’s for other things on the highways – for instance drainage gulleys, preparing for winter and street lighting.
“With winter coming, the roads do get damaged and we need to be able to repair those and keep people safe.
“I’m afraid it’s not enough to fix all of Nottinghamshire’s roads. We will still be pressing to obtain additional funding so we can really escalate our road repairs.”
You can join the new group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1415648529023641/
You can report a pothole to Nottinghamshire County Council here: http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/…/report-a-pothole
