A solution to Newton Abbot’s pothole problem?
By matt2009 | Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 11:11
Although the adverse elements of a month or so are now all but forgotten, its affects still remain – most notably in the rather ugly shape of the dreaded pothole!
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The dreaded pothole
About 10,000 of the annoyances have been reported repaired since the turn of the year – costing taxpayers thousands. Many still remain though.
An alternative way of financing the repair of crumbling roads has been offered by a cash-scrapped village in eastern Germany: Its many potholes have been put up for sale! (source pothole). It costs 50 euro’s been seems to be getting the problem fixed.
"It's about using a funny idea to find people prepared to help us sort out our roads who can then ‘sort of feel like they own the hole in the road,’ the mayor of the Thuringia city Schmidt-Rose said.
He added that some potholes had already been snapped up by television channels and newspapers wanting to advertise.
Can you see this scheme working in Newton Abbot?
Would you pay for a pothole to be filled if you could have your own personal message on top? What would you say?
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Another idea would be to leave some of them as traffic calming obstacles. That would save loads of money, not only in not reparing the roads, but also avoid those expensive traffic calming schemes we see all over the place. I was amazed in France to see beautiful smooth roads suddenly change into rutted potholed streets as soon as you hit a village. Result - drivers slow down to a crawl - it really works. I heard somewhere that in some places they even put geraniums in the potholes so drivers can see them easily.
By artichoke09 at 11:45 on 10/03/10
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