Potty potholes idea from councillor Paul Clokie
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It may sound
like a potty idea - but one councillor's come up with a plan to
sort out all the holes in our roads!
Cllr Paul Clokie, Ashford Borough Council leader, is
calling for a bizarre scheme to be introduced.....where people can
buy potholes!
For a princely sum of £45 people would be able to dig deep to
buy the holes in the ground - and then fit a memorial tribute!
The idea has taken off in the German village of Niederzimmern
near Leipzig, where villagers can buy a pot hole for 50 euros.
They are then filled with asphalt and a metal plaque with the
owner's name or a tribute to a loved one. So far only 52 of the
1,050 residents have dug deep to pay for their holes.
During a discussion about pot holes at Ashford's Joint
Transport Board meeting on Tuesday Cllr Clokie, tory councillor for
Tenterden, said: "In Germany they have solved this problem
because they've been selling potholes as places to remember loved
ones. You buy a pothole and then it is filled in along with a
marker. I think it's something Kent County Council should look
at."
Speaking after the meeting he said: "I think the scheme needs to
be examined more closely.
"You pay 50 euros so the pothole is yours and when they come to
fix it you can have a plaque put on top of it.
"It could say 'In memory of Sherry my dog' or something like
that.
Truck driver Barry Jupp, 57, from Woodchurch Road, Shadoxhurst,
said: "Even on a good day this idea is stupid. If you buy a pothole
for £50 and someone comes to fix it, what happens if it opens up
again. Do you have to pay another £50?
"There's no way it would work. In my road there are more than a
dozen potholes, it's more like a track. It's going to need a big
strip pulled up to fix it but if someone wants to pay £50 to have
an individual hole fixed that's up to them."
Kent Highways said they have fixed 31,000 pot holes this year.
This time last year they had only fixed 9,000.
- What do you think of this idea? Is it full of holes, or
is it on the right track?
Thursday, March 11 2010
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