Following a massive campaign of fibs and more lies than a cheap watch from Northumberland Conservatives during 2013 who were trying to loosen their LibDem partners from office regarding the number of potholes on our roads the Tories still lost that election and Labour formed a mixed administration which was rained with even more fibs and lies as they were not in partnership with Northumberland Conservatives.
During Labour’s first year in office they had a complete highways condition survey undertaken and their man in charge of Local Services Ian Swithenbank CBE bought in a number of pieces of kit to tackle the perceived problem.
By June 2014 the Councils terrific workforce had driven the potholes into oblivion using jetpatchers and Paviour Machines. A completely different methodology than that practiced previously. They held that positivity until 2017 when the Tories took over and failures to fix potholes while farm entrances were beautified became the current Council Leader Glen Sanderson’s norm when he was the Portfolio holder for Local Services.
His failures became even more rampant and he went into print in 2020 to say he was tackling the then gigantic backlog.
In 2021 his team went back to the press to say they trialling new methods of dealing with the by then colossal backlog. Their trial failed.
2022 brought similar news stories as the failures reached epidemic proportions but the farm gates continued to be the glamour projects concentrated on by the Tories.
We're into another year and another story about purchasing new machines to tackle what is now a monstrous gargantuan backlog with huge amounts of yellow paint surrounding potholes right across Northumberland. They have now identified a goodly number of the potholes but the Government ‘fixmystreet.com’ brings more each and every day.
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