There are four times fewer potholes on Bristol’s roads than there were ten years ago, council chiefs have claimed. And the number of other ‘defects’ on the roads has also more than halved in the decade since 2012, the council have said.
Council bosses said they have put more investment into fixing the roads, after ‘decades of under-investment’ and cuts from central Government. And the council said they also have a new weapon in the battle with the bad condition of the roads in the city - a high-tech car filled with sensors that can map the condition of a road surface and report back what needs doing where.
Bristol City Council said that in 2012-13, the number of total defects on the roads of the city stood at 13,852, of which 6,556 were potholes that needed filling in. New figures released by Bristol City Council proclaim a big success in tackling a backlog of potholes and defects on the city’s roads.
