Roads in England and Wales are at "breaking point" due to potholes, with repairs at an eight-year high, according to a new report
A Pothole campaigner has slammed the government for not doing enough as the damage to roads reaches a record high.
In October 2023, the government announced it would provide £8.3bn of extra funding for local road improvements. Mark Morrell, who has been dubbed as Mr. Pothole, claimed that this will "only resurface 2.5 per cent" of the roads in the UK.
Speaking to Eamonn and Isabel on GB News Breakfast the UK's best-known pothole campaigner said: "'We have gone past breaking point, you can see that by the state of the roads.
"The announcement of the £8.3 billion, enough to resurface five thousand miles of road from the cancellation of the northern leg of HS2, put into perspective, is only enough over 11 years to resurface 2.5 per cent of England and Wales roads.
"Over 20 per cent of roads need major investment and resurfacing now. If we don't do anything in the next fifteen years, 53 per cent of our road network will be structurally unsound and therefore it could potentially be lethal for cyclists and those on two wheels.
"This could cause billions of damage to road users.
"It's a joke. There's no will in authorities to seem to want to do anything about it. A managed decline? I don't accept that."
