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Cllr Richard Robertson says flaws in poorly maintained roads develop faster with heavier cars and calls for a rethink of road taxYour article (‘In a rut’: cost of fixing pothole-plagued roads in England and Wales soars to £17bn, 18 March) mentions “heavy traffic” and “poor road construction” as some of the causes of the pothole proliferation, but it’s heaviness of vehicles, not volume of traffic, which is most to blame.The road surface problem is rather more deep-seated than being an issue of poor treatment of potholes – though that adds to it. With vehicles getting heavier, as they are larger and increasingly loaded with batteries, any flaws in road surfaces are developing faster than they ever did before. Continue reading…
Cllr Richard Robertson says flaws in poorly maintained roads develop faster with heavier cars and calls for a rethink of road tax
Your article (‘In a rut’: cost of fixing pothole-plagued roads in England and Wales soars to £17bn, 18 March) mentions “heavy traffic” and “poor road construction” as some of the causes of the pothole proliferation, but it’s heaviness of vehicles, not volume of traffic, which is most to blame.
The road surface problem is rather more deep-seated than being an issue of poor treatment of potholes – though that adds to it. With vehicles getting heavier, as they are larger and increasingly loaded with batteries, any flaws in road surfaces are developing faster than they ever did before.
