Bucks is home to some of the worst roads in the country – with 2019 seeing more than 70,000 potholes recorded in the area over the previous four years.
At the time, the county was ranked number 10 in a list of local authority areas with the highest number of potholes, as an insurance provider found 72,551 road defects were reported in Bucks from 2015 to 2018.
And the problem has continued despite Buckinghamshire Council and the previous Bucks County Council ploughing millions of pounds over the years into fixing our roads.
With government funding to repair damaged roads in Bucks slashed by a quarter for the coming year, the County Councils Network said in February the reduction in funding across England means councils will “have no choice” but to cancel planned road maintenance projects.
The BFP reported in February that Bucks Council would receive £13.1 million – £4.7 million less than the £17.8 million provided in the current financial year – to maintain roads in 2021-22.
The BFP has covered the pothole crisis over the years, with many residents and even some councillors getting their tape measures out to show the dire state of our roads.
And of course, who can forget former reporter Andy Carswell donning a spaceman’s outfit and hopping through potholes in High Wycombe in 2010, after residents described Kingsmead Road as worse than ‘the surface of the moon’.
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We take a look back at some of the worst potholes in Bucks over the years.
Is there a pothole problem where you live in Bucks? Let us know by clicking the button at the bottom of the story or email shruti.sheth@newsquest.co.uk.
Mark Morrell, known as 'Mr Pothole', threatened to take the county council to court over Buckinghamshire’s fast deteriorating roads in 2018
Former BFP reporter Andy Carswell dressed up as a spaceman in 2010
Resident Jeff Baynham measures a pothole in High Wycombe
Cllr Khalil Ahmed with his tape measure in Downley
A large pothole in Spearing Road, High Wycombe
A pothole in Flackwell Heath
Hazlemere resident Keith Bullock measured this pothole in Amersham Road which blew a tyre on his car in 2010
A deep pothole in Marlow Bottom in 2011
Cllr Matt Knight looking at potholes in High Wycombe
A pothole in Beaconsfield
B&B owner Paul Simmons measures a pothole outside his house in Marlow Bottom in 2014
A pothole in Oakland Way, Flackwell Heath
Resident Peter Russell pointing out one of the many potholes in Rose Avenue, Hazlemere, in 2010
Kathleen Piercey of Brunel Road, High Wycombe, in 2011
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