WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter
MASSIVE WASTE OF MONEY
The Panorama programme The Pothole Problem featuring ‘Juliet in Hastings’ lays it out very clearly: If you’re fixing potholes, your strategy has failed, because in a few weeks/months the rain will get back in and the potholes will reappear. Instead, central government needs to fund preventative treatments that seal the roads and prevent water getting in in the first place. Continually focusing on filling in potholes is a massive waste of taxpayers’ money.
Rowena Rowling
Letter
FIXING A HOLE
Further to your article of 30th January, where Council figures implied that more potholes were being filled than in the past. Figures may appear to show that an attempt is being made although I am sceptical of the statistics. But, clearly, if the number of badly repaired and NEW potholes exceeds those being properly dealt with, the number will continue to increase anyway. This is indeed the case. The basic infrastructure of the local roads is now so poor that the general perception of local road users is that the situation is getting worse – not improving. One could cite so many examples, but just a few that come to mind as worryingly dangerous would be: Gillsmans Hill is bad throughout but at the left hand junction from Hollington Park Road the defects are so bad that cars have to slow below 10mph to avoid serious tyre or wheel damage; The Green; Maze Hill; North Road is appalling; in fact any number of the busy roads that cannot be avoided in St. Leonards. Don’t even start on the state of the pavements!
Richard Glaisher
Letter
CYCLISTS IN FEAR
I was pleased initially to hear that a lot of money was set aside for road repairing of potholes, etc. I was also pleased to see some potholes being repaired, big sigh of relief. However, after an initial burst of repairs it all seemed to dry up.
I am a cyclist and feel in fear when avoiding some of the deeper potholes, as I have to swerve around them or pull hard on my brakes to slow down. It’s okay after many repeat journeys as I largely know where they are and how to avoid them. The worst I have seen collectively is in Collier Road, by the West Hill: there are several deep ones and stones all around them that I presume have come out of those potholes. The situation is also very bad on the Ridge and some of the country lanes in surrounding areas. The state of our roads gives me the impression of an uncared-for society left to ruin: a third world country. The longer they are left like this the harder and more costly it will be to repair them, causing major traffic disruption.
Don’t make promises to invest money to tackle this problem, or start fixing the problem areas just to abandon soon after.
Peter Bond
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