Crawley. Heart of West Sussex.
The town pays more in tax than any other West Sussex town, it employs more people than any other town in the county and still the lack of investment is clear to see.
Coachmans Drive
Just drive down any road in Crawley and within minutes, you’ll see a pothole in the road. There are not just a few of these dangerous chasms in our town – there are hundreds.
Shackleton Road, Tilgate
Crawley has suffered from years of underinvestment and lack of maintenance on our roads and that lack of money is so easy to see.
Crawley Road Junction
They over spent on Fastway by £6,000,000 – has this left gaping holes in highway budgets as well as our roads?
A Chasm in Grattons Drive
These potholes are accidents waiting to happen…. imagine a cyclist avoiding one of these monstorous holes in the road and veering into an oncoming car…..
Massive hole in Hazelwick Mill Lane. The massive can of anti-freeze shows you the scale!
Our council tax went up by 4% last year and it’s due to go up by 4% again this year. What do they spend it all on?
Not on road maintenance!
Another Gaping Hole in Grattons Drive
Check out another website which is from the Crawley Potholes Club, http://crawleypotholes.blogspot.com Although not associated with this blog site, you can see more of the poor state of Crawley’s roads.
It seems since we started our pothole campaign and thanks to this blog being advertised in the Crawley newspapers, those in power in West Sussex County Council seem to have been out filling in the potholes across the town.
This is of course a great success, however should it really take this amount of publicity to get work done that we’re paying for through Council Tax? I understand dozens of people have complained about potholes in their street, it’s a sad state of affairs that it’s taken weeks for the council to carry out this work, which they would never have to do if they maintained our roads.
Here at Crawleypotholes, we hope the council have listened to the people of Crawley and it won’t happen in the future! Time will tell.
In the meantime, we’ll update this blog and leave the original images here as a memory of cars swerving, your anger and potential damage to your vehicle.
