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Ford Road Potholes in Hinton by Tass Whitby

Do you have a bit of road you just hate? An attempt to explain this unusual phenomenon

Maybe it's a patch of ungodly-sized potholes like in the image above, or perhaps something a lot more innocuous that irritates you specifically, for no major reason. Our tech editor shares the bits of road he least looks forward to

Thu, Oct 09, 2025 12:21
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2022 Markus Stitz nc500 riding

Markus Stitz releases new short film on off-road North Coast 500

Stitz’s gravel route covers 200-miles starting and finishing in Inverness

Mon, Apr 25, 2022 12:56
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London traffic jam (licensed CC BY 2.0 by Garry Knight on Flickr)

Emissions cuts from electric cars will be negated by new road-building

‘We can’t afford to indulge this Toad of Toad Hall model of mindless road-building’

Fri, Jul 10, 2020 14:43
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Hobby Horse (picture via The Courtyard Coffee House and Penny Farthing Museum on Facebook).jpg

11 things we’ve learned this week

Some more facts, figures and lessons we've learned from another week on two wheels...

Sat, Jan 27, 2018 11:10
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Bury New Road, Ramsbottom (via StreetView).jpg

Coroner says DfT’s new pothole repair policy increases chances cyclists will be killed

Guidance is only that potholes of a certain depth should be ‘investigated’

Tue, Nov 14, 2017 16:24
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Essex Potholes 3

A pothole’s position in the road is as important as its size says Cycling UK, as councils claim some are too small to fix

Advocates risk-based approach to pothole assessment but calls for more funding

Tue, Nov 14, 2017 12:22
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Essex Potholes 4

Dozens of cyclists a year injured by minor potholes

What can be done about holes the council say are 'too small' to fix?

Sat, Nov 11, 2017 11:57
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Pothole

Almost one in five roads in England and Wales in poor condition

Highway teams do not have the money to arrest ‘terminal decline’ of local roads according to Asphalt Industry Alliance

Wed, Mar 29, 2017 16:11
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M25 traffic queue (CC licensed by Timo Newton-Syms on Flickr)

New road schemes create more traffic concludes study

Government road-building programme will achieve nothing but increased demand for roads, according to Campaign to Protect Rural England

Tue, Mar 21, 2017 11:43
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Basingstoke Black Dam roundabout

£10m roundabout redesign for Basingstoke – but it’ll be so dangerous there’s no provision for cyclists at all

Road design ignores government advice to include insfrastructure for vulnerable road users

Sun, Nov 16, 2014 09:17
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