{"id":14199,"date":"2024-05-09T23:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2024-05-09T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:34:32","slug":"4000-holes-in-blackburn-one-or-two-in-wenvoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14199","title":{"rendered":"4,000 Holes In Blackburn, One Or Two In Wenvoe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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4,000 Holes In Blackburn, Lancashire And One Or Two In Wenvoe <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the Daily Mail on 17 January 1967, the Beatles famously found their inspiration for the Sgt. Pepper track \u2018A Day in the Life.\u2019 John Lennon\u2019s lyrics repeated an article\u2019s claim that there were \u20184,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.\u2019 It went on to speculate that if Blackburn was typical there would be over 2 million potholes in Britain\u2019s roads. One suspects today the total would be much higher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that, on average, there are about six potholes per mile in council-controlled roads in England and Wales. The RAC ‘Pothole Index\u2019 suggests that motorists are now twice as likely to break down as a result of wear caused by potholes than they were 17 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>No one actually seems to know where the term pot- holes comes from. One source attributes it to time when potters dug holes in Roman roads to steal the clay they were made with. Today we can firmly blame bad weather and heavy traffic for so many potholes. It is of course, the same the world over. And pot holes are dangerous. \u2018India Today\u2019 reported in 2018 that over 9,300 people had been killed and nearly 25,000 were injured in road accidents caused by potholes; a greater a danger they said, than terror attacks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back in Preston, Lancashire (and just down the road from Blackburn) an inquest found a pothole to have been the major cause of the death of a cyclist in January 2023. Interestingly, last year, The South Wales Argus reported the results of a Freedom of Information Request which revealed that the Welsh Government had paid out a massive \u00a31,188,565.25 to an anonymous claimant for a \u2018pothole-caused personal injury\u2019 which took place four years earlier.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Citizens have become increasingly innovative in drawing attention to the problem. Recently on the streets around Bury and Ramsbottom, near Manchester, one man employed crudely drawn male genitalia in a bid to attract the local council\u2019s attention to pot-holes. Within 48 hours, many had been filled. Back in India, fed up with the authorities failure to repair a pothole in the middle of a main road in north Banga-lore, artist Baadal Nanjundaswamy created an extremely lifelike sculpture of a huge crocodile and painted the area around it green to make it look like a pond. The locals were startled and the pot hole soon fixed!<\/p>\n

So what about the Vale of Glamorgan? <\/strong>In March 2021, the Welsh Government announced \u00a312 million extra funding to help improve the condition of our roads. You can report potholes to the Vale by completing a simple online form. To qualify for repair the pothole must extend in any direction by just over the size of a sheet of A4 paper. If they fit the criteria, the Vale target is, if possible, to fix all reported potholes within 28 working days. Potholes that are identified in a high risk area are repaired within 24 hours. Finally though, the Vale have a word of warning for us\u2026\u2026\u2019please don’t measure potholes, it is dangerous.\u2019<\/p>\n

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4,000 Holes In Blackburn, Lancashire And One Or Two In Wenvoe In the Daily Mail on 17 January 1967, the Beatles famously found their inspiration for the Sgt. Pepper track \u2018A Day in the Life.\u2019 John Lennon\u2019s lyrics repeated an article\u2019s claim that there were \u20184,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.\u2019 It went on to speculate that if Blackburn was typical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-3H1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10322,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=10322","url_meta":{"origin":14199,"position":0},"title":"When is it time to say STOP?","author":"Alan Williams","date":"19th September 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Vale Communities Unite Vale Communities Unite is a community group set up by local people in the Vale of Glamorgan during 2020. 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