Pothole-関係のある 決裂／故障s up 10 per cent in a year as Britain's road 条件 危機 continues

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The UK's pothole 疫病／流行性の is 強めるing with the RAC …に出席するing 10 per cent more 決裂／故障s resulting from 運転者s 運動ing through potholes than a year ago.

Some 27,205 callouts to 決裂／故障s 予定 to poor road surfaces in the UK were received by the RAC in the year to the end of March. That compares with 24,906 during the previous 12 months, the モーターing services company said.

The new 人物／姿／数字s are 明らかにする／漏らすd after the RAC said it had been called out for a 記録，記録的な／記録する number of pothole 決裂／故障s in 2023,?as the 政府 and 地元の 当局 fail to get a しっかり掴む of the nation's 崩壊するing road 危機.

Nearly 8,000 (7,904) call-outs for pothole-関係のある 損失 were 記録，記録的な／記録するd by the 決裂／故障 援助 provider in the first three months of 2024 予定 to Britain's 悪化するing road surfaces.?

道端 patrols have been called to …に出席する an 普通の／平均（する） of 87 pothole-原因（となる）d 決裂／故障s per day for faults 含むing broken 中断 springs, 損失d shock absorbers and distorted wheels.

This is 22 per cent より小数の pothole-関係のある 決裂／故障s than the RAC …に出席するd in January to March 2023 (10,076), which the company せいにするd to?the '異常に 穏やかな 天候' seen at the start of this year.

Only seven days of 霜 (compared to the usual nine) were 記録，記録的な／記録するd in the 開始 three months of 2023, which could have 潜在的に 限られた／立憲的な the number of brand-new potholes forming.?

During winter months, sub-無 気温s 普通は 原因（となる） more surface 悪化／低下 as water gets into 割れ目s in the road, 凍結するs and 拡大するs.?

The RAC's Pothole 索引 ? which 対策 the 見込み of 苦しむing a pothole-原因（となる）d call-out - 示唆するd the warmer 気温s have helped the UK to 'dodge a pothole 弾丸'.?

While call-outs for pothole 問題／発行するs were 負かす／撃墜する in the 開始 ４半期/4分の1 of 2024 compared to the same three months in 2023, they were up 53 per cent on the last three months of last year.

The RAC said this is a '（疑いを）晴らす 調印する that the UK is 苦しむing a pothole 疫病／流行性の as roads continue to 崩壊する'.?

And compared to 2006 - when the RAC first began 跡をつけるing these faults - drivers are now nearly twice as likely to experience pothole 損失.?

This is Money 報告（する）／憶測d that?pothole 損失 cost UK drivers £500million last year, while a major 産業 熟考する／考慮する 明らかにする／漏らすd recently that 会議s have spent £28.8million on 補償（金） （人命などを）奪う，主張するs for 損失 原因（となる）d by potholes to cars across the country.

Pothole-関係のある 保険 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs have also 急に上がるd 40 per cent in a year, also reaching 記録，記録的な／記録する-high levels.?

The RAC is calling on 地元の 当局 to 割り当てる 最近の 政府 基金ing to better 取り組む the road surface 危機.

In October, the 政府 発表するd it would 供給する £8.3billion 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 was part of the 網状組織 North 戦略 to use money saved by scrapping the planned 拡張 of HS2 north of Birmingham.

However, the cost of bringing pothole-疫病／悩ますd 地元の roads in England and むちの跡s up to scratch has been 概算の at £16.3billion, によれば the 最新の 分析 by the Asphalt 産業 同盟.

RAC 長，率いる of 政策 Simon Williams said: 'All the 割れ目s left by years of 拒絶する／低下するing road 維持／整備 予算s can't easily be filled.?

'Even though the 政府 has given 会議s an 付加 £8.3billion for road 維持／整備 from the 取り消し of the northern 脚 of HS2, we know this is only enough to resurface 5,000 miles of roads ? the 同等（の） of just 3 per cent of all England's 地元の roads.

'To make the most of this 基金ing, we implore 地元の 当局 to 焦点（を合わせる） their 成果／努力s on resurfacing the worst roads in their areas rather than pointlessly trying to patch pothole-ridden roads that can't be saved from その上の 拒絶する／低下する.

'And now is the time for preventative 活動／戦闘 to be taken, as it's between the warmer months of April and September when 決定的な surface dressing work can be carried out to 延長する the life of roads.?

'Sadly, 政府 data we analysed shows 60 per cent of English 会議s didn't do any such work in the 2022-2023 財政上の year.'

Major inconsistencies with how 会議s 報告（する）／憶測, 監視する and 修理 potholes?

The UK arm of French car 製造者 Citroen has also today called on the 政府 to 器具／実施する a standardised 国家の 過程 for 地元の 会議s 報告（する）／憶測ing and 監視するing pothole levels in their 裁判権.?

It comes after the 製造業者 暴露するd the way 会議s 記録，記録的な／記録する pothole 報告（する）／憶測s, pothole 修理s and 優れた 修理s 変化させるs vastly across the country, 主要な to a postcode 宝くじ for road-修理 返答s in the UK.

A Freedom of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） request submitted to 地元の 当局 across England, Scotland and むちの跡s 明らかにする／漏らすd that there is no coherent 過程 for how 会議s 報告（する）／憶測 and 監視する potholes. Inconsistencies mean a surface defect that one 会議 may consider as a pothole 要求するing 緊急の 修理 may not be 扱う／治療するd with the same 緊急 in a 隣接地の 当局, 主要な to the problem 存在 underreported 国家的に.

現在／一般に, there is no centralised 政府 政策 to follow - 会議s in England and むちの跡s are 要求するd only to 完全にする 修理s within a 'timely manner' によれば the 主要道路s 行為／法令／行動する 1980.

One major 不平等 across different 当局 is the 資格 of pothole size.?

For instance, ーするために 報告（する）／憶測 a pothole to Worcestershire 会議, the size must be deeper than 40mm and wider than 200mm. However, Essex 郡 会議, which says it 修理d over 13,000 road defects in 2023, will only 答える／応じる to a pothole 報告（する）／憶測 if it is deeper than 50mm and 対策 at least 100mm across in two perpendicular directions.

地元の 会議s were also shown to use 異なるing 指導基準s for 監視するing the 緊急 of 修理 必要物／必要条件s.?

Barnsley 会議 has two 部類s of 修理 timeframes 範囲ing from 24 hours to one month, compared to Warrington 会議 which has seven, 許すing potholes to remain on roads for up to 40 days until 演説（する）／住所d.?

Additionally, some 会議s 取り組む potholes only as part of a 一括 of general 維持／整備 in their area, considering other 可能性のある 問題／発行するs such as 直す／買収する，八百長をするing 衝突，墜落 障壁s or road signage, running the 危険 of the road 条件s より悪くするing.

Greg Taylor, managing director at the UK department of the French car 会社／堅い, said:? 'The 欠如（する） of consistency around the way 会議s 報告（する）／憶測 and 取り組む potholes 許すs room for even greater numbers of 必須の road 修理s to 落ちる through the gaps, leaving more 運転者s at 危険.'

A Department for 輸送（する） spokesperson 答える／応じるd: '地元の 主要道路 当局 are 責任がある 持続するing their road 網状組織s, but we are supporti ng them with £8.3billion of reallocated HS2 基金ing over the next 10 years, the biggest ever 増加する in 基金ing for 地元の road 改良s which comes on 最高の，を越す of an 存在するing £5.5 billion 基金.

'地元の 当局 received the first £150million of this 増加する within weeks of 発表するing our 付加 基金ing in October, and will receive a その上の £150million this year to continue 改善するing 地元の roads.'

Darren Rodwell, 輸送（する） spokesperson for the 地元の 政府 協会, 追加するd: '会議s 株 the 関心s of all road 使用者s with the 明言する／公表する of our roads and are doing all they can to 取り組む the £16.3billion backlog of road 修理s, 含むing learning from and 可決する・採択するing innovative techniques.

'Greater, long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 and year-on-year consistency of 基金ing for the 維持／整備 of all parts of our 主要道路s will help them 達成する this.

'The 政府 should award 会議 主要道路s departments five-年一回の 基金ing 配分s, to bring them on a par with 国家の 主要道路s, to give more certainty so they can develop resurfacing programmes and other 主要道路s 改良s, to help them 取り組む the 天罰（を下す） of potholes.'

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