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5:41pm Tuesday 9th March 2010 in


As drivers county-wide continue their daily battle with the increasing number of cavernous craters in our roads, the Watford Observer is asking for your help in identifying the worst and most dangerous potholes in the area.

Readers continue to contact us about the shocking road conditions near their homes and on their routes to work, with each demanding that urgent repairs are carried out before vehicles are damaged or serious accidents caused.

Hertfordshire County Council stressed this week that it was “working tirelessly” to address as many as 2,000 complaints a week.

We, however, would like to help speed the process along by highlighting the worst examples in our area. So, please send us your pothole pictures (with a brief description of location) to editor@watfordobserver.co.uk and help us mend our rickety roads.

Alternatively, readers can send images by text message (with the title WATFORD) to 80360, or simply leave a comment below.

Comments(14)

Catbird says...
11:01pm Tue 9 Mar 10

lazy journalism, get yourself s out there and see whats wrong.

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Watford_Chick says...
11:31pm Tue 9 Mar 10

How about finding out why Three Rivers/Croxley are relaying perfectly good pavements - and making a mess of it!!! instead of filling in potholes- or is it under a different budget they have to use up before April!

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Clarewo13 says...
6:05am Wed 10 Mar 10

There are a couple of massive ones in New Road in Croxley Green. I reckon you could lose a small child down one of them! They seem to have repainted the white lines in the road recently. Can't white line painters be re-trained as pot hole fillers?

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cathbal66 says...
6:41am Wed 10 Mar 10

in Watford:

Greatham Road - massive craters down the middle of the road

Sandown Road - like a third-world country road

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earth_chylde says...
8:25am Wed 10 Mar 10

Green Lane, Brookdene avenue and Hayling Road are diabolical! constantly having to swerve to avoid damaging my car... sometimes wonder why I pay my road tax!

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Reader (R) says...
12:26pm Wed 10 Mar 10

Send em a map of Hertfordshire, it was the worst county for road repairs in the country and that was before this years bad weather.

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TRT says...
4:40pm Wed 10 Mar 10

Watford, IMHO, is not as bad as Enfield and Barnet, but having said that there are some very bad areas, like Harwoods Road. And not half-a-mile away, there is a team of tarmac trained workers dumping great mounds of the stuff outside Laurance Haines. OK, the works there were requested as the result of a tragic loss of life, and I have every sympathy with the bereaved friends and families, but did they really have to leave a pot hole not ten feet from the new hump? Do they need orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back and recycled as fire-lighters in order to not leave the council liable if they just put a shovel full of tar into a nearby hole?

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steveyb says...
4:43pm Wed 10 Mar 10

Chandlers Cross is a joke, the potholes have cost me £200+ in replacing a buckled wheel.

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TRT says...
5:04pm Wed 10 Mar 10

I'm not sure their online fault system works, you know. I've been reporting two street lights out at Wiggenhall Bridge since before Christmas and they've not been fixed. Three times I've put those into the system.

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sam2b says...
5:31pm Wed 10 Mar 10

In watford Greatham Road is awful craters in the middle of the road, Tolpits Lane is bad also they have finally resurfaced Hagden Lane which was awful so can they fill these ones in too what do we pay Road Tax for and council tax........... If i had a cop car behind me in traffic they would stop me thinking i was drink driving as i have to avoid these **** things and paying out for new tyres that i have already had to do because of potholes............
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Andrew1963 says...
11:24pm Wed 10 Mar 10

I think the potholes must be the new way to deal with speeding motorists. Virtually every road has potholes. Oxhey Road was repaired last month with pot holes and damaged road humps repaired the whole length of the road. Whereas a huge pot hole in Green lane opposite woodwaye has just been filled, but a large pothole further down the road has been left. Surely a rolling programme, doing all holes in a road is neede. Starting with the busiest roads (on the basis that repairs prioritised in this way benefits the greatest number of users).

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Tudor247 says...
8:40am Thu 11 Mar 10

Whatever happens there has to be a quality job done in hole-filling. Ones near me have lasted a matter of days earlier this year. Underinvestment is the main cause from a lower than required grant from central government. Councils can't perform miracles. Car drivers just may have to drive more carefully for a while till more money is generated. And I know the road fund tax is not used as it should be.

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Sara says...
2:34pm Thu 11 Mar 10

@watford_chick If you mean the pavements in Baldwins Lane, that's Hertfordshire County Council, not Three Rivers.

Almost every road and pavement is the responsibility of the county council, as they are the highways authority.

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Rob Ridley says...
7:55am Fri 12 Mar 10

I thought that there was a highways partnership between TRDC and HCC, or has that ended? Complain to your county cllr and if he's not a tory he will blame them, the tories will blame central govt etc etc. Maybe Baldwins Lanpavements are being done as B norman district cllr lives there?

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