Roads deteriorating in towns and cities

A report by the Department for Transport looking into the state of UK roads has found that unclassified roads in towns and cities have deteriorated significantly.

It identified that the majority of roads had suffered whole carriageway major deterioration, defined as cracking, deformation, defective patches and loss of aggregate, accounted for half of the defects.

The report also looked at the ability of road surfaces to prevent cars skidding and found that half of London’s roads were below standard as well as 26 per cent of all major roads in other cities across the UK.

Potholes were reported separately and were found to occur, in average, for one every 200 metres of road in some parts of the country.

This has raised questions from motorists as to why they are charged so much for driving when the conditions of the roads that they drive on are not up to the correct standards.

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