The cost of repairing roads affected by potholes in England and Wales alone is estimated to be £14bn - while Edinburgh has been branded the pothole capital of Europe, with residents resorting to plugging gaps with traffic cones
Funds earmarked to fix pothole-plagued roads in the UK have been slashed to lower than 13 other major nations, new figures show.
But the government cut annual expenditure on UK road maintenance from £4bn in 2006 to £2bn in 2019 - the last year of international comparable data available. The data was analysed by the Local Government Association - a cross party organisation that works on behalf of councils to give a voice to local authorities.
LGA chair, Shaun Davies, warned the UK had fallen to"almost the bottom of the league" in terms of the money allocated to repair local roads.
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