In the UK, you might be surprised to find out that potholes are not considered to be such unless they are deeper than 4cm. This comes to light as various local authorities are trying to cut back on expenses with respect to road repairs unless they are deeper than 4cm. Road management is suffering from a deficit of around 1 billion Pounds due to road repairs and they are trying to cut back costs due to the ever deepening global economic slowdown. People are outraged at the idea and those who use the same roads who enjoy cycling and other motoring activity groups are calling the bid to be too shortsighted due to the possibility of the increasing and not decreasing accidents on the road.
Some city councils have even gone deeper to 5cm. with regards to the depth of a road surface defect till they would have road crews take action to repair them. Various groups are expressing much disgust at the new proposals and they say that anything that you can trip on should be considered a pothole and be repaired. A hole is still a hole however deep it is and no law could change that. Imagine running over a pothole through fog and getting into an accident just because road maintenance says it’s still too shallow to be repaired. This is causing much outcry from the public who say that this is sure sign of the utter disregard of the authorities for public safety in exchange for economy.