Potholes in Newland Avenue blamed on rise in traffic during west Hull roadworks

“Speedramps, Speedtables, Raised areas, all provide water traps and impact points that in the end lead to surface damage and erosion that would not occur on a flat road. When they created all this **** they should have anticipated the high maintainance costs of it all or better still not installed it all in the first place. Hull is the most vehicle hostile place I know”

“getrealplease.
If the council provided just the basics there would be enough money.
However the Council provides much more.
Parks, theatres, social care, childrens care, pensioners bus passes, childrens meals the list is endless unlike your attitude which seems to be limited
.”

“If I was a HCC council tax payer I would be asking some serious questions about what my council tax is being spent. Potholes, litter and street lights out everywhere. They will blame cuts in government funding no doubt but don't buy that, most households in the city still pay between £100 and £200 per month and I think that's more than enough to fund the basic and fundamental services that the HCC need to provide.”

“I love driving down Newland Avenue. I always get to practice my emergency stop procedure thanks to the morons who insist on running out in front on my car.”

“How wonderful that he had his other 3 wheels to rely on.
Now imagine you ride a motorcycle and you have to constantly navigate your way through the city's growing amount of pot hole's and if you judge it incorrectly, you run the risk of being spat off your bike into oncoming traffic.
The morning adrenaline gauntlet gets trickier daily.”

“I agree with you SPBlakeney,it's another example of poor planning & inadequate management displayed by HCC.I think a stick of dynamite inserted in the appropriate orifice might help!”

“It was all down to the council not making their minds up whether the super revamped Newland Ave was to be a European cafe-culture nirvana,or a hub of stores/student life/trading. Naturally trying to cram the lot into whats little more than a regular high street has seen traffic churn the road to pieces.

Double deckers,trade wagons and dustbin lorries thundering past coffee salons are a bizarre mix anyway. You either pedestrianise all together, or keep it as an arterial route in to Hull centre, it was never going to be a healthy combination of both.”

“HullyTom,you're spot on.They should be cut out,squared off & then bituman sealed to do the job properly but again it's down to finance.Unfortunately HCC only look to the short term & don't look for a permanent solution.Instead of professional repairs we're getting shoddy temporary jobs which don't last 5 minutes.Until attitudes change the potholes will keep appearing.”

“The pop holes re appear in the same places time and time again as the water gets in between the edges, freezes in winter and forces the tarmac out again. They just need to do a proper job and SEAL THE EDGES with tar which most of the independent contractors do instead of doing a lazy job and wasting time and everyone's money.”

“I burst a tyre in a similar incident in Cottingham (on the run up to the railway crossing) about three years ago. The tyre was about two months old and was a proper one, not a re-tread. Within a few days the pot-hole was fixed. Wonder if that was because of how many other people burst their tyres. Wish I'd taken it up with ERYCC. Might have been reimbursed eh?”