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National Audit Office slams DfT in road report
- 25/07/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Less than half the roads in England are in satisfactory condition and the bill to repair them has risen to £15.6bn. This is according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO), which revealed that the Department for Transport (DfT) spent more than £1.1bn on maintaining roads in 2022-23. The majority of [...] -
Windscreen claims up 17% in two years
- 09/07/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
New research from Allianz has revealed that windscreen repair costs have risen 17% since 2022. It reported that average windscreen claims this year have risen from £308 two years ago to £327. Meanwhile, repairs for small chips have increased in volume by four per cent from last year while full glass [...] -
Top driver bugbears revealed
- 12/06/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A new survey has revealed the most frustrating aspects of driving in the UK, with road surfaces, poor driving behaviour and high costs topping the polls. According to research carried out by YourParkingSpace, potholes was the main cause of concern for 69% of respondents in its survey of 2,000 motorists. Drivers [...] -
Labour Party pledges to repair a million potholes a year
- 12/06/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Labour Party has promised to make funding available to councils to repair a million potholes a year if it comes to power next month. Addressing the issues of potholes and high insurance premiums were key pledges of its ‘Plan for Drivers’ which has been introduced after the Conservative Party positioned [...] -
Drivers hit with £1.48bn pothole bill
- 24/04/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A new report has exposed the cost to motorists of the poor quality of UK roads. According to Kwik Fit’s PIT Report, which tracks the impact of potholes, drivers had to pay £1.48bn last year to repair vehicles damaged by potholes. This is a 61% on the figure six years ago. Going further back, the repair bill [...] -
UK hit by ‘pothole pandemic’
- 04/04/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The pothole crisis in the UK has reached pandemic levels with more than a million potholes reported last year alone. According to Confused.com, more than 2,700 potholes were identified on UK roads every single day during 2023. The South East is the UK region most impacted, with more than 200,000 potholes [...] -
Drivers hit with £14bn bill due to poor roads
- 19/03/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Data from the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance has revealed that councils face a shortfall of £16.3bn to repair damaged British roads. It says that only 47% of roads in England and Wales are in good structural condition with the remaining 53% unlikely to last another 10 years. The government pledged [...] -
Pothole damage costs soar
- 18/03/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Road safety and breakdown recovery specialist GEM Motoring Assist has warned drivers to be even more careful of potholes after council budgets for compensation has fallen by more than half. According to the latest Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance report, 18% of local roads, or 37,000 miles, are judged to be [...] -
RAC attends record-high pothole-related breakdowns
- 10/11/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The RAC has attended the highest number of pothole-related breakdowns in any third quarter since it began recording this data in 2006. RAC patrols went to 5,978 breakdowns caused by damaged shock absorbers, broken suspension springs or distorted wheels from July to September. This was 580 more than the previous [...] -
Pothole damage at five-year high
- 22/08/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Pothole-related breakdowns are at a five-year high with new data showing that spending on road maintenance has almost halved in a little over a decade. Data shows that the worst area for potholes in the UK is Northumberland with over 180,000 reported over four years, followed by Cornwall and Kirklees in West [...]
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