Report pot holes and 20 mph

The County Council have a new hotline at:

www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/pothole

In an effort to improve roads the County have introduced this new system to make it easier to report online. Last year 2,254 people called the County to report a pothole - only 97 used the website which is cheaper for the County to process.

Clearly holes in the road can be dangerous and need sorting - but have to say on a few local roads the potholes have actually reduced traffic speeds - the holes are easily visible, well known and are a cheap way of making walking safer!! Indeed since one of those roads has been repaired cars have returned to travelling too fast. Not sure what the answer is except that we should be designing all residential roads for speeds of no more than 20 mph.

As for our local 20 mph zone I have been again on the phone and look set to organise an onsite meeting in December to see if difficulties can be overcome. It is vital we reduce traffic speeds.