Watchdog 8pm BBC1

[CaNsA]

Something about potholes and should we be paying for the damage.

Wrong section?
Dont care.

[Snorty]

For those like me who can't be arsed turning the shit box on:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_one_london/watchlive
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[Wonko The Sane]

don't my council taxes done gone paid for pot hole fixing?

[CaNsA]

Councils are responsible for the local roads and the upkeep is paid for through council tax.
The Highways Agency are responsible for the major trunk roads and motorways which is where all the tax disc money gets spent on, allegedly.

[LockyUK]

[smithyithy]

[CaNsA]

[smithyithy]

I thought it was common knowledge but no worries..

'car tax' or 'road tax' is it's wrongly known in both cases is actually Vehicle Excise Duty, and is based solely on vehicle emissions. Nothing to do with paying for right to use the road, or paying to fund maintenance and repairs, that's what general taxation goes towards.

Council tax goes to your local council, which in turn pays for local repairs and maintenance to the roads under that council (evidence would suggest otherwise though eh?).

General tax pays for everything else, including a lump going to the Highways Agency, that contract out Areas of the UK road network, eg. I work for Amey, we have Area 9 which is basically the A and M roads in the West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire..

We do all the surveying, costing, design etc for these roads, then ask the HA for money for the repairs each year. Could be £20k, could be £1m+, it's a long process..

[mailee]

Well that doesn't surprise me in the least. We originally paid rates which covered things like the police, refuse, repairs etc now they are telling us we have to pay for our refuse collections, We pay more to the local councils now and get far less services for it.....go reckon???

[rac3r]

Kinda off topic but has anyone else found that potholes are in the best locations such as on roundabouts, junctions etc where it's almost impossible to avoid or look like a twat in doing so
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[FireStorm-X]

Best pothole I have seen around wigan is on Manchester road. Council filled a large pothole, with a nice big square of Tarmac, pitty the corner of the pothole was outside of there square, so there is still a pothole there with a nice strait line of Tarmac across the middle of it you think that the person filling the pothole would have just finished filling it, but no just left a bit of it not filled in.
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[smithyithy]

[Deucalion]

[Nandonian]

[Chalky.]

[smithyithy]

Councils are shit, it's that simple

I wish in a way, companies like ours could absorb the minor roads within our Area.. We've got the scheme in Birmingham though..

[Rogerborg]

[smithyithy]

[Rogerborg]

Footists, pedalists, horsists and some electropedalists are exempt enjoy an unconditional right to use the road.

All motor vehicles have to obtain a VED license to use the public road.
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[Chalky.]

[smithyithy]

I know they have to in order to use the public road, the original point is that VED / road tax, whatever you want to call it, doesn't pay for road MAINTENANCE.

[Shinigami]

i've been using the fixmystreet site also, all the ones i've reported have been fixed, though I did state they were dangerous for motorcycles so maybe that encouraged them.
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[smithyithy]

Every time I write up a design report, I state something along the lines of '..poses a severe safety hazard for the travelling public, in particular motorcycles..'

[Richmurrills]

[DrDonnyBrago]