THE COUNTY council is paying out £300-odd pounds a week for damage done to cars by the potholes Oxford Mail (November 19). Well, what can you expect? They have had all the summer to fill the holes and they still haven’t all been repaired.
But don’t worry Oxfordshire County Council. If the winter is as bad this year as last year, then all holes which have been filled will be coming out again like party poppers come Christmas.
What I would like to know is this: there are more people paying road tax now than ever before, but our roads are getting worse. Where is all the tax money being spent? It’s certainly not on the roads.
Years ago, I was told that a third of it went to keep our armed forces abroad.
Well I don’t think we should pay and subsidise anyone. We pay a high road tax and should have the best roads in the world.
Perhaps there’s something wrong with our party-popping asphalt.
P HOWARD, Brome Place, Headington
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