Pothole Success!

There are a few in Pill under the railway vidauct, that have been reported for at least three years but North Somerset Council only repair them if considered dangerous. They are at the deepest point 1" deep. 

I hit a pothole that I was aware of but at the time I was avoiding a lane changing driver and damaged a rim. I reported it and said I'd suffered damage to my bike and it was fixed within 36 hours but no recourse for my damaged rim.

It's also very handy to remind the highway authority of their duty under Section 56 of the Highways Act (1980) - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/56

Section 149 looks interesting in terms of forcing hedge-cutting farmery bastards to sort their mess out too... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/149 - shame most highway authorities work on a geological time scale.

Reporting generally does work. It makes the highway authority legally liable. Unless they've been notified of a defect they generally can't be held liable for it, so when they're told (assuming you give an accurate report) then they usually will fix it. Sometimes very poorly as BB notes above (Glasgow is also awful for this) but it's easy to re-report on www.fillthathole.org.uk.

I reported one in Southampton. They fixed it, 3 weeks later it's twice the size it was. 

They have marked up and bodged "fixed" some Potholes here in Cambridgeshire......some 3-4 years post reporting..... mind you there is the County Council Elections in early May....yeah yeah....cycnic....but it happens every time

Better than Reading, then - still not fixed after over 2 years!

Excellent stuff! I've only report one in Trafford, Manchester, and it's still there .