Mark Morrell, a pothole campaigner, has dismissed the government's new funding for potholes, saying repairing potholes "is a waste of money" and roads need to be resurfaced.
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00:00It was a pathetic pothole pledge in the first place, repairing of one million potholes when there's 11 million on our roads already.
00:05And the extra funding, yeah, okay, it makes some difference, but nowhere near in terms of the size of the problem we've got.
00:12Everybody knows the problems with our roads.
00:15Even the main roads that they've been trying to spend money on maintaining,
00:19some of those that were on the traffic light system that were green are now amber, so even the major roads are deteriorating.
00:26And even our motorway network, I've never seen so many defects on our motorway network.
00:30So the whole situation needs to be long-term investment and a strategy in asset management.
00:37It's nowhere near enough and we need long-term investment.
00:40Repairing potholes is a waste of money.
00:42Until you actually resurface your roads, we're never going to see the end of it.