Deadly potholes on Britain’s roads are putting lives at risk because they are not being repaired quickly enough. Cycling UK discovered only one in eight local councils are meeting targets to fill the damaged menaces and other problems in time.
And figures by the Department for Transport shows 448 people have been killed or seriously injured in crashes linked to terrible road surfaces between 2007 and 2018.
It comes after the chancellor last week announced £2.5 billion over the next five years to repair some 50 million potholes as part of the government's bid to upgrade infrastructure across the UK.
Keir Gallagher, campaigns manager at Cycling UK, said: “While Boris Johnson talks about 'levelling up' infrastructure, the reality is that
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