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Two highways crew resurfacing an area of road. One male is bent over emptying tarmac while another make is spreading the tarmac.

It’s quality not always quantity with pothole repairs

When you see the same roads deteriorating again and again, it’s easy to feel like no one cares and nothing is changing. But there are plenty of us out there who do care. And a huge amount of work is going on every day to tackle potholes and improve

Highways worker in safety gear brushing over a repaired pothole in a residential street. He is surrounded by cones with a repairing your roads sign in the foreground with the enquiries number

Why are potholes such a problem this winter?

If you were deliberately trying to design the perfect conditions for potholes, you would choose exactly what we’ve experienced recently: 17 nights of freezing temperatures followed by over 20 days of wet weather – the longest period of continual wet weather in Oxfordshire since 2004. In January alone, we saw

Two highways crew in protective gear fixing a damaged area of road - one male is bent over using a circular saw to cut into the tarmac. The other male looks on.

No two potholes are the same...and not all potholes are equal

It’s a question we get asked a lot. “Why has the pothole down the road been repaired, but the one outside my house hasn’t?” It isn’t random or based on who shouts loudest – it’s about managing risk with limited crews and budgets. Each pothole is assessed