Potholes 🤬

It’s been raining virtually non stop here with 1600mm so far this year.
Our average annual rainfall is 1100mm.
This means road surfaces have been deteriorating at a record rate.
Almost 10,000 drivers across NSW have found themselves stranded with a damaged wheel or tyre this month after widespread rain caused more than $1.5 billion worth of damage to roads.

Potholes are a key cause of wheel and tyre damage. Between March and the end of June, Transport for NSW repaired 65,000 potholes on state-managed roads in regional NSW and 10,000 in Greater Sydney. That is on top of the potholes repaired by councils eg. our Shoalhaven CC, on their own road networks.
Councils are responsible for maintaining 90 per cent of the state’s roads. 

The number of potholes in regional NSW has increased by 74 per cent compared to last year.
The NRMA said it had received 9814 calls for assistance from drivers who have suffered wheel and tyre damage so far in July, with almost half of them from outside of Sydney.

Mayor of Shoalhaven City Council Amanda Findley said the rain had exacerbated the road damage suffered in March and its incessant nature was hampering efforts to fix the network.
“It’s completely impossible to get on top of the task, which is frustrating the daylights out of the community,” she said.
Don’t we know it.
Driving around our area, even on the major A1 highway is like a slalom course.