GLASGOW. George Square. Potholes protest.
Protesters from the Potholes Make Glasgow group and Private Taxis make their feeling known during a demonstarion in George Square.
Angry motorists gathered to rally in Glasgow today to demand the local authority do more to fix the city’s crumbling roads.
Traffic was brought to a standstill as the protesters made their feelings clear. Police Scotland attended briefly but departed after having decided the protest was peaceful.
Around 50 protesters and 40 taxis took part in the action.
Protesters from the Potholes Make Glasgow group and Private Taxis make their feeling known during a demonstarion in George Square.
Angry motorists gathered to rally in Glasgow today to demand the local authority do more to fix the city’s crumbling roads.
Traffic was brought to a standstill as the protesters made their feelings clear. Police Scotland attended briefly but departed after having decided the protest was peaceful.
Around 50 protesters and 40 taxis took part in the action.
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00:00 [Music]
00:07 Fix our potholes!
00:11 Hug if you hate them!
00:15 [Music]
00:20 Hi, I'm Jamie Canavan, the creator of Potholes Make Glasgow.
00:23 Potholes Make Glasgow was a group that I set up back in 2021
00:27 to try and help drivers aware of potholes in Glasgow
00:31 and also to make the council aware of them.
00:34 It's a Facebook group, we've currently got 13.7 thousand members.
00:39 The group's been a massive success with the Glasgow residents
00:43 but the council are taking no notice though.
00:46 Even with the reports that have been reported, nothing, they don't seem to be getting any better.
00:50 We're here to make more people aware and make a stand
00:53 and let the council know that we're not happy with the state of Glasgow City's roads.
00:57 So what you do is you get out, take a photo of the pothole,
01:01 the conditions of the road etc. and the damage to your car.
01:04 Then go onto the Glasgow City Council website or the app
01:08 and report the potholes there with the relevant pictures etc.
01:11 Ultimately we want better roads to drive on.
01:14 Everybody's working hard for their vehicles etc.
01:17 We don't need an extra expense repairing the vehicles, so ultimately repairing the roads.
01:21 I think there's not many streets in Glasgow that don't have a pothole.
01:24 Have you seen any repairs getting done Jamie?
01:26 There are repairs being done but in turn most of them are temporary repairs.
01:31 The figures reveal from 2019 that it cost the City Council £1 million in 2019 to do temporary patch-up jobs.
01:41 So what's the figure now?
01:43 Why do you think the roads are in such a state?
01:46 Neglect. I wouldn't really say it was neglect.
01:49 So the protests started at 10 o'clock and we've got some protesters as you can see on site.
01:55 We've got Unite, the union, Scottish Private Hire etc.
02:00 They'll be joining us at 11 o'clock with a vehicle convoy around the square.
02:04 Have you seen many incidents, many accidents?
02:07 Yes, obviously we've been in the greater A group, I've seen quite a lot.
02:10 We've had an incident where a girl crashed her car with four kids on board.
02:14 Disgraceful.
02:16 [Music plays]
02:22 [MUSIC]