Mobility scooter rider Margaret Pryke is fed-up with Ashford potholes
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00:00I think it's a problem throughout Ashford, the whole of Ashford, but I mean for local people like the people in Newtown and like myself in South Willsborough,
00:09we've got enormous grape potholes down Cudworth Road and the footpaths in one area you can't get by even if you had to,
00:17because you've got a telegraph post up right in the middle and then on dustbin day you've got to manoeuvre dustbins to get round,
00:26it is difficult and people like myself that have got mobility scooters are getting damaged scooters because of the potholes.
00:37I have to use the road now because this scooter is bigger than the one I had before and therefore it doesn't fit the footpaths at all.
00:45I can't get on the footpath very well in Cudworth Road.
00:49It is jump and bump and I've already damaged my back from my little one that I used to have.
00:56This one I don't feel them quite so much, but for the smaller scooters it is very, very painful on the spine, very painful.
01:07Well most of the other scooter people that I'm friendly with have all said the same, the roads and the footpaths are disgusting.
01:17The politicians come round, they want us to vote for them, but when we want anything done, where are they? They're never around.
01:25I mean we don't ask for these things, we have them because we are unable to get about normally.
01:32I mean I really feel it, I've been quite active all my life, walking and things like that, but I can't walk very far now
01:43and I find that the scooter does get me out and about, I don't sit indoors and moan so much as I used to.