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Councils Failing to Do Pothole Prevention Should Face Mandatory Training – RAC
RAC and Road Surface Treatments Association urge councils to adopt mandatory training and preventative maintenance to reduce costly road repairs and improve surface longevity.
- The RAC and RSTA called on local councils on 2025-09-09 to face mandatory training for failing to carry out preventative pothole maintenance in England.
- This demand follows RAC analysis showing that half of local highway authorities neglected preventative measures on A roads in 2023/24 and 36% did so on B, C, and unclassified roads.
- Experts like RAC's Simon Williams and RSTA's Mike Hansford criticized the prevalent reactive maintenance as costly and blamed it for the current poor road condition with large volumes of potholes.
- The government is investing £24 billion over the next five years to improve roads, aiming to end the pothole plague, while the average driver spends nearly £500 annually on pothole damage repairs.
- Councils must show progress in implementing preventative treatments or risk losing a quarter of this year's funding, signaling a push toward longer-lasting solutions and improved road maintenance knowledge retention.
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RAC and RSTA call on Government to mandate preventative road maintenance training - FleetPoint
The RAC and the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) have today written to the Government calling on it to introduce mandatory training for councils who carry out little or no maintenance to prevent potholes forming. At the start of Pothole Prevention Week (8-14 September), the two organisations have joined forces with a view to getting councils to understand the benefits of low-cost preventative maintenance treatments that seal the road s…
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