"This resembles a small lake"
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00:00Good morning, we're at the slip bow that leads off the Soak Parkway, and this runs into Westwood on the left hand side.
00:14Now we've got a block dranglee here, and the water is running down into this area here, look.
00:25I can't see if there's another road gully here, there perhaps is, but this is a safety issue.
00:43Surely, traffic's running down this slip road, and then it's hitting this huge amount of water.
00:53There's another road gully down there, look, that's all blocked up, and this resembles a small lake.
01:03Now, this is common all over Peterborough, all on the A47, the parkway systems, and a lot of residential streets.
01:13Block drains, they have not been cleaned out for a number of years, and to be honest, it's just a simple task, isn't it?
01:25We have these large lorries that are built for drain cleaning, it doesn't take a lot of physical effort by the operator to clean these drains out.
01:36They just pull up, lift the lid, put down the suction pipe, suck all the dirt out, and away they go.
01:44So why are all these drains around Peterborough just left unemptied, non-functioning?
01:52It's just another aspect of the neglect of our road system.