Potholes. Hit one and anything can happen from damaging the tyre, the wheel, suspension, causing a road traffic collision or worse.
Now it is a political issue with government scrambling to resolve the situation with ‘almost ring-fenced’ money, and the threat that it might be taken away if the work isn’t carried out.
From money being thrown at the problem, to advance solutions like ‘self-healing’ asphalt, Transport News takes a look down into the quarry-like cavity.
As for the term ‘pothole’, its thought the Roman Empire coined it as potters would steal clay from the roads creating deep holes.
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