Heavier cars are 非難するd for the £16 billion cost of Britain's pothole 疫病/悩ます as 崩壊するing roads reach 'breaking point'

  • Over 107,000 miles of 地元の roads 危険 崩壊するing if not re-built within 15 years

Heavier 乗り物s and larger cars are helping 押し進める Britain's 崩壊するing roads to 'breaking point'.

The pothole backlog 修理 法案 now stands at a 記録,記録的な/記録する £16 billion, as 補償(金) (人命などを)奪う,主張するs 急に上がる.

The 警告 comes in a 報告(する)/憶測 which 最高潮の場面s how changing 運動ing habits are putting 増加するd 圧力 on 地元の roads across England and むちの跡s.

It 設立する the pothole 修理 法案 has 殺到するd by £2 billion (16 per cent) on last year, with one in every ten miles of 地元の roads now having surfaces in a 'poor' 条件. This equates to around 22,300 miles.

But even more worrying, over 107,000 miles of 地元の roads ? 53 per cent ? have deeper 構造上の problems and 危険 崩壊するing 完全に if not re-built within 15 years.

Heavier vehicles and larger cars are helping push Britain's crumbling roads to 'breaking point' a report has revealed (Stock image)

Heavier 乗り物s and larger cars are helping 押し進める Britain's 崩壊するing roads to 'breaking point' a 報告(する)/憶測 has 明らかにする/漏らすd (在庫/株 image)

The pothole backlog repair bill now stands at a record £16 billion, as compensation claims soar (Stock image)

The pothole backlog 修理 法案 now stands at a 記録,記録的な/記録する £16 billion, as 補償(金) (人命などを)奪う,主張するs 急に上がる (在庫/株 image)

The 危機 has 誘発するd an 80 per cent 殺到する in 補償(金) (人命などを)奪う,主張するs 宿泊するd with town halls by cyclists and drivers, with nine in ten relating 特に to pothole 損失.

The 法案 for payouts has 急に上がるd by nearly a third, from £11.6 million to £15.2 million, によれば the 報告(する)/憶測 by 貿易(する) 団体/死体 the Asphalt 産業 同盟 (AIA).?

It said the growing 危機 was 存在 fuelled by '増加するd 普通の/平均(する) 乗り物 負わせるs on a 悪化するing 網状組織'.

New cars have been growing at an 年次の 普通の/平均(する) of 10kg heavier and half a centimetre wider in 最近の years, also driven by growing 需要・要求する for SUVs.

The AIA said the 転換 に向かって online shopping, which took off during the pandemic, means more heavier 先頭s and 配達/演説/出産 トラックで運ぶs, many of them EVs, are on the roads, too.

Other factors fuelling the 危機, によれば its 報告(する)/憶測, are the 増加するd frequency of extreme 天候, more traffic and the 衝撃 of はびこる i nflation.?

This has 原因(となる)d the 普通の/平均(する) cost of filling a pothole to rise to £72.26, up from £66.54.

Over 107,000 miles of local roads ? 53 per cent ? have deeper structural problems and risk crumbling completely if not re-built within 15 years (Stock image)

Over 107,000 miles of 地元の roads ? 53 per cent ? have deeper 構造上の problems and 危険 崩壊するing 完全に if not re-built within 15 years (在庫/株 image)

Although cash 予算s for 直す/買収する,八百長をするing 地元の roads have 増加するd, in real 条件 they have either fallen or stayed level for most 会議s.

The 年次の AIA 報告(する)/憶測, based on data 供給(する)d by 地元の 当局, said it would take ten years and £16.3 billion to (疑いを)晴らす the 現在の pothole backlog.

It is the third year in a 列/漕ぐ/騒動 that the 概算の cost has 増加するd.

The Daily Mail has been (選挙などの)運動をするing for an end to the nation's pothole 疫病/悩ます, which is costing drivers millions in 修理 法案s and putting cyclists' lives at 危険.?

Tory MP for Buckinghamshire, Greg Smith, who sits on the ありふれたs 輸送(する) 委員会, said: 'This does need to be 定評のある and 演説(する)/住所d.'

Simon Williams, roads 政策 長,指導者 for the RAC, said: 'the 規模 of the problem now 直面するing 会議s is truly gargantuan.'

AIA chairman Rick Green said: 'Couple this with the 影響s of the extreme 天候 we are ますます 直面するing, and the result is that the 率 at which 地元の roads are 苦しむing is 加速するing に向かって breaking point.'

The 調査する 設立する that an 概算の 2 million potholes will have been filled in by 会議s by the end of this 財政上の year (2022/3).

But the 率 at which 地元の roads are 落ちるing into disrepair means they are still playing catch-up.

In October last year, the 政府 発表するd it would 供給する £8.3 billion of extra 基金ing over 11 years to 直す/買収する,八百長をする potholes in England.

This is money saved by scrapping the planned Birmingham-Manchester 脚 of HS2. But Mr Green 追加するd: 'There's still a mountain to climb... it's 明確に not going to be enough to 停止(させる) the 拒絶する/低下する.'