White line painted across 3ft wide pothole!
on April 8th, 2010 at 9:47 pmBungling council workers painted a white line over a three-foot pothole on a busy road in Birmingham instead of filling it in. Despite the trench-like pothole being noticeable, highway workers seemed to carry on regardless, painting over the crater on the Hagley Road. The white line covers nearly half of the pothole and the blunder has been criticised by the TaxPayers’ Alliance, which has branded it a waste of tax payers money. Emma Boon, campaign manager for the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘It seems a silly idea to paint a road marking over a pot hole. ‘It will cost the tax payer more for the council to fill it and repaint the line. ‘If the council had done things in the right order and gone about the repair in a sensible manner it would save the tax payer money.’ More
