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Market Drayton on potholes
Shropshire Star
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31/03/2025
Back in January, councillors in Market Drayton declared a war on potholes - two months later we visited the town to see who was winning the battle.
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Pretty appalling. We lived in France for a couple of years. The roads there are amazing.
00:05
And literally as soon as you come into the UK, the roads are awful.
00:09
And they're pretty terrible around here.
00:11
The best balance to be had isn't there, because it's money.
00:14
But at the same time they're not vending the popcorns properly.
00:17
They're filling them in, they're not sealing them.
00:19
So literally ten months later after you've had a frost, they're just coming up.
00:23
So there seems to be no business common sense from that point of view.
00:27
We pay a bit more getting prepared properly.
00:30
There's a balance between how much they can spend and other more important things such as social care.
00:35
But then we've got our roads and cars being damaged and money being wasted.
00:39
Because no one seems to treat public money as important money.
00:45
There's no attraction. We have our own business, a small business.
00:48
And every penny we spend, we make sure we get quotes and we get value for money.
00:52
But it doesn't seem to be working.
00:53
Unfortunately, I think we've got to the point where we've left it for too long.
00:57
So now it's just trying to catch up with the passion.
01:01
Rather than things being maintained as and when they were going on in the first place.
01:05
We were just saying, actually, as we were coming along the road,
01:08
that we're full of phases.
01:09
We've had to stop four sets of roadworks on the way.
01:13
So we're full of phases.
01:14
We have to keep stopping for traffic guys and roadworks.
01:17
At the same time, we want things to be fixed.
01:20
So we've got to catch up.
01:21
Yeah, you're seeing more of that major disruption rather than just the coaching I have done.
01:26
That's right. These are traffic guys.
01:28
We've had to wait for several minutes at each one.
01:30
Four sets.
01:31
Probably cost us 15 minutes of time altogether.
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