I see the highways department has been wasting thousands of pounds again for purely cosmetic, short-term reasons by using hot tar and gravel on Five Gates Lane and Gloucester Road instead of actually repairing the potholes and badly damaged road edges.
It might look pretty for four weeks, but the potholes are still visible under the “make-up”.
Driving from Lincoln last week, I noticed that the further one gets from that city, the worse the roads get. I wonder why?
Steve Cattell
Main Street, Hougham
king’s schoolboys