Is this the worst road in Shropshire?

Shropshire Star

Near to Welshpool a road linking Marton to The Cross, is crumbling away at both sides, and has damaged many a car.

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00:00 I think. And then they'll come.

00:04 So Heather could be standing what could be the worst

00:09 road in Shropshire. Just fill us in where are we Heather? You're local

00:14 councillor? I'm the local councillor. This little piece of road here

00:17 is in Shropshire. Yeah. And either side of it's bits of road

00:21 in Powys. So we've got to your right is Wales and to my left is England. Got you.

00:28 So the road comes under England though in Shropshire. It does. I might just bring you

00:32 forward and come towards me and we can just see

00:35 the road has literally just crumbled away either side hasn't it? I mean quite

00:39 often the issue with potholes is you can't see

00:42 them and we can already see this is full of water.

00:44 But this is just tricky to even navigate around if you know it's here isn't it?

00:49 It is and when it was full of water you wouldn't have seen how deep the other

00:52 side is and I know three vehicles that have grounded

00:55 here and have had a real problem getting off it. I don't know what damage they've

00:59 done to their vehicles. I think the other problem here is that

01:03 actually for my residents and residents above the Shropshire ones this is the

01:08 route out. Yeah. And they have the other routes are

01:12 all really difficult to use. Once flooded

01:16 the surface of a diversion route has been stripped off.

01:20 Yeah. And so living up here they should be able to get in and out to get to

01:24 Welshpool or Shrewsbury to the hospital without a problem. Yeah I mean the one

01:28 road you've just brought me up on obviously not navigating this that

01:31 did have a landslide didn't it on it and you can see the remnants of that still.

01:35 Absolutely and the mud from that every time it rains is being washed off onto

01:39 the road. Yeah. And it's deep mud and rocks and

01:43 one of the residents has been removing the rocks. Yeah.

01:46 So I mean you know 2024 are you surprised that we're ending up

01:53 with roads in this state and not just that they're in this state

01:56 but there's nobody here you know working on them sort of isn't it.

02:00 I think the problem is when we live in rural areas they think oh well there's

02:03 not many people using this they'll all be fine.

02:06 Well they're not all fine and I've got two

02:09 households who have to be able to get to the hospital for various

02:12 routine appointments on a regular basis. Yeah.

02:16 Just because there are a few of us doesn't mean to say we shouldn't be

02:19 doing dealing with the roads so that people can get from A to B.

02:22 They don't need to be perfect they just need to be passable.

02:26 So sir you're a local resident. Yeah we've been to save over the

02:29 over topping just a bungalow down the bottom there. And go on then what's your

02:32 view on the state of the road around here. It's horrendous.

02:35 Well it's been impassable before long wasn't it. Yeah well yeah.

02:39 I've had three lots of people who've grounded on this. Yes yeah we've grounded.

02:43 My friend came up the other day and grounded in a car.

02:46 I reported it in September. I reported it again in October

02:51 and then I spent an hour on the telephone with a guy and he said oh yes

02:56 it's got a number you've been given a number and they'll do it when they can.

03:00 Yeah. And we're still waiting. So we've got um what's your names guys?

03:04 Glyn. Glyn and? Dorothy. So you're local farmers local residents?

03:09 Correct. And um what you what you got to say about this

03:13 this bit of track here then? I mean if you're in your track till you get through

03:16 all right wouldn't you but you you know people have had the cars

03:19 damaged on here is that right? Yes yes yeah. Even the tractor tires are

03:24 very expensive these days. Yeah I've caught the bottom of my car as

03:28 well. Yeah. Coming through here. Yeah. It's so deep at the side.

03:32 So we I mean being a farmer looking at this you're even thinking with the

03:36 tractor size you could end up damaging them.

03:38 Yeah you can easily damage a tractor tire on these now. Yeah.

03:41 Yes and then you know a couple of thousand pound of tire live there.

03:44 Yeah yeah yeah. So um very frustrating for being. Very frustrating. Yes and we use it

03:51 every day. Yes yeah. Yeah. And it's been like this

03:56 oh I don't know now six eight months more. Yeah yeah.

04:01 Oh thanks guys. Yeah. Well those wellies are just showing I

04:06 mean it's you know it ain't far off the top of your wellies is it? That's a

04:09 that's a deep hole in it that.

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