LETTERS: Throwing an easy solution into the pothole mix

Updated July 12 2016 - 9:49am, first published 8:52am

WITH the extremely wet period we are currently experiencing it is the ideal time to draw an obvious conclusion as to the best way forward for all the sealed streets and roads in our local government area. This conclusion is that council needs to abandon the use of 20th century bitumen in favour of hot mix road surfacing. The current situation is that constant pothole patching, although essential for this outdated bitumen surface, is in the long term a serious waste of our money and unless repairs can be carried out in a manner that will last more than a week or two if we are lucky, then all future spending should be on using hot mix or other such equivelant product. I therefore ask our councillors to implement this change as a matter of some urgency as the extra money spent will pay handsome dividends in the long run.

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