The number of potholes being fixed in Lancashire has increased by 28 per cent since last year, new figures have revealed.

Between 1 January and the end of September, 36,577 potholes were found and repaired by the county council's highways service.

Of those, 92 per cent were fixed within their target time of 22 working days.
This is despite road maintenance crews working through the Coronavirus pandemic, with some staff diverted to other urgent work as a result.

Now the county council is asking people to let them know what they think of the roads in the county.

Last winter's poor wet weather caused more potholes than usual on Lancashire's roads.

However during the first lockdown repair teams were only able to focus on responding to safety critical defects.

Since then they have been working hard to catch up over the summer and autumn, working with extra safety measures and social distancing in place.

County Councillor Keith Iddon, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: "It's been a really tough year for everyone and that includes our pothole repair teams. We had a very wet winter and damage from storms Ciara and Dennis have had a significant impact on our roads.

"Then during the first lockdown our highways staff assisted in setting up NHS Coronavirus testing facilities, the temporary mortuary at Warton and delivered PPE equipment to key workers. They have also recently been involved in setting up a new testing facility in Leyland


"I'd like to thank them for working so hard this year in continuing to deliver an excellent service to our residents, despite these extra pressures.

"No-one likes to see potholes on the roads and we get a lot of enquiries, so our highways engineers have recently produced a video answering the common questions people ask about them on social media.

"Hopefully this will provide a useful insight into the service and why we do things a certain way, but also show how we are always striving to make Lancashire's roads as safe as possible."

The council is urging as many people as possible to complete an online highways survey to rate the county's roads.
The national highways survey results are used to help plan and prioritise future work.
Find out more about how the team are working hard to improve Lancashire's roads and complete the survey at http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/roads-p...ravel/pothole/
The video is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqic2036OWM

Last winter's poor wet weather caused more potholes than usual on Lancashire's roads.

No, lack of proper maintenance and shoddy workmanship caused more potholes on Lancashire’s roads last winter.

Originally Posted by justbecause

Last winter's poor wet weather caused more potholes than usual on Lancashire's roads.

No, lack of proper maintenance and shoddy workmanship caused more potholes on Lancashire’s roads last winter.

Repairing potholes is obviously required, but potholes, and in this case MORE potholes is really a sign of abject failure and not something to trumpet.

Potholes appear because tarmac is old , gone too brittle and has lost its elasticity and should be replaced. A large proportion of roads in Lancashire are knackered and while LCC pursue the ridiculous policy of resurfacing the best roads first as per their transport asset management plan (TAMP) then the roads will continue to deteriorate to 3rd world standard. A local example is Pool Hey Lane which must of had over 100 repairs in the residential section. Potholes appear weekly in the old tarmac and in the rubbish repairs which are done again and again and again. This has gone on for years on this stretch, yet roads with no issues get resurfaced. Currently Guinea Hall lane is being resurfaced, which compared to most roads is actually in very good condition. It beggars belief how they prioritise resurfacing.