Councillor says more damage to Hampshire roads than when Luftwaffe was bombing (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Councillor says more damage to Hampshire roads than when Luftwaffe was bombing

10:42am Wednesday 17th March 2010 in

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A LIB Dem county councillor has compared Hampshire’s pothole-ridden roads with a bomb site.

Cllr Alan Dowden said there were more holes in Hampshire’s roads than “when the Luftwaffe bombed Britain”.

Cllr Dowden said he had counted 29 potholes on a half-mile stretch of Hiltingbury Road in Chandler’s Ford alone.

His comments come after a motorist driving in the King’s Somborne area criticised county highway bosses when his BMW was damaged on pothole-ridden roads.

The driver is now considering lodging a claim against the county authority for damages.

Cabinet spokesman for the environment, Cllr Mel Kendal, said the county was working hard to fill the potholes.

He added that since the beginning of February, it had increased the number of pothole gangs from 22 to 50, and brought in a special ‘jetpatcher’ to blast tar into potholes to speed up repairs.