This latest “ice age” weather has created yet more pot- holes all across the county (The Argus, January 15).

Brighton and Hove City Council seems to be taking the attitude that it has better things to spend money on – money that we, the tax payers are supplying, but have absolutely no say or control over how it is spent, apparently.

Here in Hardwick Road where I live, potholes have been a real problem for many months now. Last year’s ice caused around 20 potholes along the length of the road, and despite several telephone calls to the highways department at the council it was around three or four months before any work was carried out to repair them.

Even then, after these repairs (which were simply done with a lump of tarmac packed into the holes and tamped down) the workers failed to repair three potholes, and these are still present.

Now they have been joined by around a dozen more that appeared after our last spell of icy weather – some of these being previous repairs that have failed.

After yet more calls to the authorities, workers came and filled in the largest of the holes at the bottom of Hardwick Way, where three bus services approach their termini – the 5A, 5B and the 5. But they simply ignored the rest.

These same bus services, through no fault of their own, obviously chew up these poor attempts at pothole repairs and, once again, the holes are getting larger by the day – to the point that many are now actually disgorging the flints and other rock that forms the bed of the road.

This very dangerous stuff is then thrown up and around by the buses and the many other vehicles passing along the road. I wonder if the council is likely to repair all these hazards before next winter brings more ice.

GF Mower
Hardwick Road, Hove