With councils potentially losing government funding for not meeting pothole targets, could this lead to better roads or not?
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00:00We've taken baths on some of them, the size of them.
00:02They'd have a good dip.
00:04Some of them are really bad, like, especially on, like,
00:07what's it called, Walton Hall Avenue, like, they're awful.
00:10But then the thing is, I don't think it's right that
00:14if that damages your tyre, then you've got to pay for your tyre.
00:16The council can't really pay for the tyre
00:18because you should really be filling them in.
00:20There's, like, streams going underneath and you can see them.
00:23And then when they get filled in, they're not really filled in properly.
00:28Only temporarily, aren't they?
00:31Quick opening, that's it, away.
00:33If they wanted to do it, they'd do it.
00:34But maybe if they are threatened with losing the funds
00:38and then maybe it might give them an opportunity to step up.
00:41Well, who else is responsible?
00:44Unless they're not giving them enough money to cover it.
00:46That's another reason, isn't it?
00:48Yeah, we get things done early.
00:50We haven't got the funds to do it.
00:53Well, they've been allocated, but they're not doing it
00:56because of outlays and other things.