DIAmond Advanced Motorists has called on the government to sort out the nation's problems with potholes by making additional funding available for fixing the roads.
Figures obtained from the Asphalt Industry Alliance’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) Survey show that arounf £9.5bn is needed to fix the state of damaged roads, with motorists very much expecting that the large amounts of money they spends in various taxes for using the roads should be pumped back into repairing them.
Mike Frisby, DIAmond chief examiner, commented "Numerous surveys have shown that the road-going public consistently thinks that improving our roads should be a priority for transport expenditure. But successive governments have been less keen on spending revenue taken from motorists’ wallets in a way that will benefit them – and also the economy as a whole. Not only do we now need remedial work to be undertaken as a matter of urgency, but the UK government also has to prioritise and fund a programme of planned maintenance on a long-term basis."