Fed up with all those holes in the road? Then pay for them to be repaired yourself, suggests one council leader
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7083378.ece
As mad ideas go, they don’t get much pottier than the pothole solution proposed by the leader of Ashford Borough Council in Kent. Fed up with that crater in the road outside your house? Tired of waiting for the council to mend it? Pay for it yourself, suggests Councillor Paul Clokie, and use it as a memorial for a pet.
Is he serious? Apparently. He points out that a scheme is already under way in the German village of Niederzimmern, near Leipzig, where for a mere €50 you can sponsor your local pothole, ensuring not only that it is filled in but that your name, or your company’s, is etched into the asphalt.
Clokie is not alone in taking an interest in Niederzimmern: from New York to Krakow, councils have picked up on the idea and are considering similar schemes. Yet in spite of the concept’s popularity, Councillor Clokie’s idea has yet to get off the starting blocks. ...local people showed a singular lack of enthusiasm for investing in repairs out of pocket for which they had already paid through road tax and council tax.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7083378.ece
As mad ideas go, they don’t get much pottier than the pothole solution proposed by the leader of Ashford Borough Council in Kent. Fed up with that crater in the road outside your house? Tired of waiting for the council to mend it? Pay for it yourself, suggests Councillor Paul Clokie, and use it as a memorial for a pet.
Is he serious? Apparently. He points out that a scheme is already under way in the German village of Niederzimmern, near Leipzig, where for a mere €50 you can sponsor your local pothole, ensuring not only that it is filled in but that your name, or your company’s, is etched into the asphalt.
Clokie is not alone in taking an interest in Niederzimmern: from New York to Krakow, councils have picked up on the idea and are considering similar schemes. Yet in spite of the concept’s popularity, Councillor Clokie’s idea has yet to get off the starting blocks. ...local people showed a singular lack of enthusiasm for investing in repairs out of pocket for which they had already paid through road tax and council tax.
