RECENTLY we drove from Knutsford to Hull, down through Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire to Norfolk and then through Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire back to Knutsford.

We used the M62 and A50, but other than those two, roads were major ‘A’ roads, minor ‘A’ roads and many ‘B’ roads each with varying levels of traffic including HGVs.

What was really striking was that, without a lie, there was only one stretch of a minor ‘A’ road in Lincolnshire that had potholes to match East Cheshire’s.

On virtually all the remainder there was the occasional pothole of course but nothing like our roads in East Cheshire, and so you could watch for traffic not the next pothole.

In fact it was noticeable that travelling from Stoke and Talke into Cheshire, it was immediately obvious when we had crossed the county border because the condition of the road became so much worse.

How can this be?

The counties we travelled through cannot all be so much better off financially than East Cheshire, so how do they manage to have better maintained roads?

I genuinely do not understand why we have to have such disgusting and dangerous roads.

I recently had to replace yet another tyre damaged by a pothole as evidenced by marks on the wheel rim.

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