Rosamundi: Road maintenance has become a thing of rags and patches, when what really needs to happen is the resurfacing of nearly every road in the country. The fuel duty freeze has robbed the Exchequer of a hundred billion pounds, meanwhile cars are getting bigger and heavier and causing more damage.

Our roads are fucked. The pothole pictured isn't even a bad one. Manhole covers are collapsing in on themselves. WSCC are doing nothing

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Impossible to see what they can do without any money, councils have all been utterly starved of cash.

Road maintenance has become a thing of rags and patches, when what really needs to happen is the resurfacing of nearly every road in the country. The fuel duty freeze has robbed the Exchequer of a hundred billion pounds, meanwhile cars are getting bigger and heavier and causing more damage.

They are still getting billions in fuel duty

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