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Pothole meaning
A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic. | A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream. | A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
Example sentences (20)
Barnet is the pothole capital of London, averaging to one pothole for every 86 resident.
On Tuesday, DPW had seven of the department’s 20 pothole crews responding to pothole complaints.
Along Central Avenue, workers filled in a pothole that blew out tires on multiple vehicles.
Arnold Schwarzenegger fixes a giant pothole in Los Angeles.
A total of 324 pothole reports have been made to the council so far in May and around 700 square metres of highways defects were repaired in April, with hundreds more planned.
But it turns out it wasn’t even a pothole, but a trench.
But Mark Morrell, perhaps better known as Brackley campaigner Mr Pothole, said current funding across the country is “like peeing in the sea” and that extra money is desperately needed to halt the decline.
Claiming for pothole damage to vehicles in Gloucestershire is “like finding a needle in a haystack” as it was revealed the state of the roads was the subject of hundreds of freedom of information requests last year.
Drivers’ anger at the condition of local roads has reached an eight-year high, with a third of drivers swerving to avoid a pothole, a new survey suggests.
Firstly, the Chancellor announced a multi-million-pound package for pothole repairs.
From pothole depth to overall smoothness, the first survey since 2016 aims to assess the quality of every street so the city can better repair them.
He described Baillieston as “a disaster zone” and said one major pothole has yet to be repaired.
He said: 'The first thing I noticed was a man warning us there was a pothole.
If the pothole is on a motorway or main trunk road, the chances are it is a National Highways problem.
If you establish that a pothole has damaged your car, it might be possible to make a compensation claim.
Investigations showed Mr Collings had discussed the fraudulent claim with friends and analysis found the damage could not have been caused by a pothole as claimed.
It is a fixed cost for filling up a pothole of a certain size, both material wise and labor/time.
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Mr Briggs returned to the issue and called for the to set up a pothole fund.
Mr Faulkner said a direct comparison between the skid steer loader currently in use and the Pothole Pro suggested the proposed new machine may not be cheaper, or more efficient.