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£14bn potholes crisis has left our roads even worse than Russia's
Daily Express
|April 29, 2024
POTHOLE-plagued cost roads £14.4billion a year in economic harm, analysis reveals.
Damage, accidents and time lost caused the bill, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Its deputy chairman Douglas McWilliams said: "Britain's pothole crisis is serious. Having completed the most recent Peking to Paris car rally from Beijing to Paris, my take is our roads are worse for potholes than anywhere on that rally apart from the far West of China and Mongolia.
This story is from the April 29, 2024 edition of Daily Express.
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