Is this pothole ridden street Huddersfield’s worst road?

Mar 13 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Potholes on Smithy Lane

COULD this be Huddersfield’s worst road?

Smithy Lane, Moldgreen, is just 120 metres long.

It runs from Somerset Road into Wakefield Road and is used by many motorists.

But they are finding themselves navigating something more akin to a lunar landscape.

The Examiner took a hole count and totted up a staggering 124 potholes along the short length of the road.

But fear not: repairs are on their way, say Kirklees Council.

The council has put aside hundreds of thousands of pounds from its £3.5m road repair budget to deal with 10,000 potholes.

Some 7,000 potholes have been repaired since January 18.

Kirklees plans to repair a further 3,000 but requests will be added to the list.

The council says potholes will be dealt with one ward at a time.

This week, crews were working in Almondbury patching up roads badly hit after the ice and snow of the worst winter for 30 years.

The workmen scrape out the worst of the loose mess and then used a special adhesive to repair the holes with tarmacadam, which is flattened down.

But they face a daunting task as holes have appeared on virtually every road throughout the area.

Water which seeped into cracks in the roads froze as temperatures plunged well below freezing day after day, night after night, and caused the roads to crack up.