EXCLUSIVEWelcome to pothole 小道/航路: Fed-up 運転者 訴える手段/行楽地s to changing street 指名する of his pothole 疫病/悩ますd road in the dead of night - in hope it will HUMILIATE 会議 into 直す/買収する,八百長をするing 2ft-wide 噴火口,クレーターs
A mystery 選挙運動者 has altered 調印するs in a road pockmarked with 抱擁する potholes to try and humiliate the 当局 into doing something about the problem.
The 居住(者) struck in the dead of night by altering the road 調印する for Patch Hall 小道/航路 to read 'Patch The 穴を開けるs 小道/航路'.
The street in Chelmsford, Essex, has been infuriating 地元のs for over a year, with some 穴を開けるs more than 2ft across and six インチs 深い.
The unorthodox approach to 最高潮の場面ing the 問題/発行する struck a chord with 居住(者)s, who said they are fed up with having to weave through the 強襲,強姦 course on a daily basis.
Taxi driver Juber Nayeem, 24, who uses the 大勝する to take a child and their carer to a school, said: '広大な/多数の/重要な. I fully support the 指名する change. Now maybe the 会議 will be 軍隊d to 直す/買収する,八百長をする the road.
The 居住(者) struck in the dead of night by altering the road 調印する for Patch Hall 小道/航路 to read 'Patch The 穴を開けるs 小道/航路'
Patching Hall 小道/航路, in Chelmsford, has been 一時的に 改名するd by an unknown and disgruntled 居住(者)
The unorthodox approach to 最高潮の場面ing the 問題/発行する struck a chord with 居住(者)s, who said they are fed up with having to weave throug h the 強襲,強姦 course on a daily basis
'Cars are 絶えず swerving to 避ける the 穴を開けるs and if 活動/戦闘 isn't taken 権利 now, I 恐れる there'll be an 事故.'
A mother-of-two, who gave her 指名する as Vanessa, 恐れるs using the street either as a 歩行者 or a 運転者 in 事例/患者 she 負傷させるs herself or 損害賠償金 her car.
She said: 'It's so dangerous I hate crossing the road. When I 運動 along here, I'm always looking out for the potholes in 事例/患者 I 損失 my car.
'Patch The 穴を開ける 小道/航路 is a good 指名する for a 貧しく 持続するd road.'
Another 地元の, called Saravanam, 38, complained: 'It's a real problem. I moved here just over a year ago and had no idea about the awful noise of cars continuously hitting the pothole outside my house, day and night.
'I think it's brilliant that someone has changed the 調印する and brought it to the attention of 主要道路s bosses.'
The phantom signwriter has the support of many 影響する/感情d people, particu larly 運転者s who 競う with the potholes on a daily basis
A 大規模な pothole on the road is 手段d with tape
The busy 大勝する is part of a 網状組織 of 5,000 miles of roads 持続するd by Essex 郡 会議
A 広報担当者 for Essex 主要道路s said Patching Hall 小道/航路 was 予定 to be resurfaced in September
The 大勝する serves two schools and is used as a shortcut by 居住(者)s at nearby 住宅 広い地所s
Children were also pictured walking nearby the road on their way to school
Indrani, 40, who lives on the road, 追加するd: 'I have a child at the school and I worry when she walks to class that cars trying to 避ける potholes could swerve and 攻撃する,衝突する her. It's just a 事柄 of time until there's a serious 事故.
'It shouldn't have taken someone altering the 調印する to 最高潮の場面 the need for 即座の 活動/戦闘.'
Another homeowner said: 'The new road 調印する made me smile but there's a serious need for 活動/戦闘.
'Many drivers coming from nearby streets have 苦しむd 損失 to their cars from the potholes.'
The busy 大勝する ? which is part of a 網状組織 of 5,000 miles of roads 持続するd by Essex 郡 会議 - serves two schools and is used as a shortcut by 居住(者)s at nearby 住宅 広い地所s.
激しい lorries 定期的に 雷鳴 負かす/撃墜する it too, 追加するing to the 損失 on the road.
Exasperated Chelmsford City 会議 leader, Lib Dem Stephen Robinson, said: 'It's a shame it takes a gimmick like this to 最高潮の場面 an important 問題/発行する like road defects that 明確に needs 直す/買収する,八百長をするing.'
激しい lorries 定期的に 雷鳴 負かす/撃墜する the 大勝する, 追加するing to the 損失 on the road
The roads new 指名する has drawn admirers who are 押し進めるing for 活動/戦闘 to を取り引きする the potholes
One pothole appeared to 手段 5in 深い at its lowest point - enough to 原因(となる) car 損失
Exasperated Chelmsford City 会議 leader, Lib Dem Stephen Robinson, said: 'It's a shame it takes a gimmick like this to 最高潮の場面 an important 問題/発行する like road defects that 明確に needs 直す/買収する,八百長をするing'
A 広報担当者 for Essex 主要道路s said: 'We do ask members of the public not to 修正する signage as it can 誤って導く 居住(者)s and 原因(となる) 混乱'
Earlier this month a 居住(者) in another Essex community, Gr eat Easton, put up a homemade 木造の 調印する 警告 '警告を与える pothole' after spotting a motorcyclist almost lost 支配(する)/統制する when they 攻撃する,衝突する one of a 一連の 噴火口,クレーターs in the Tarmac.
Essex 郡 会議 has been criticised for the 明言する/公表する of its roads, にもかかわらず an 付加 £12 million 存在 配分するd to 維持/整備 on 最高の,を越す of the £39 million 予算d for 2024-2025.
This is 井戸/弁護士席 below the 概算の £85.4 million needed 毎年 to 取り組む the problem, however.
In the year to September 2023, the 会議 received 2,389 (人命などを)奪う,主張するs for 損失 to 乗り物s 原因(となる)s by 貧しく 持続するd roads ? up from 1,335 in the previous 12 months.
乗組員s carried out 修理s to 708 potholes between February and March ? 408 on main roads and 300 on 地元の 大勝するs.
A 広報担当者 for Essex 主要道路s said Patching Hall 小道/航路 was 予定 to be resurfaced in September.
They 追加するd: 'We do ask members of the public not to 修正する signage as it can 誤って導く 居住(者)s and 原因(となる) 混乱.'