[gpderetta]

The catch is that if your car is damaged by a pothole you have a chance to claim damages from the council only if you can prove that the council knew about the pothole. So even if most reports do not result in an action, they still have some values and are an incentive for the council to fix the road.

[cameronh90]

If only the councils were as good at fixing potholes as they are at coming up with excuses as to why the road surface is within acceptable limits[0].

Even when they do bother to fix the pothole, they seem to just dump a bit of cold lay asphalt in the worst bit and hand tamp it down rather than properly preparing the surface and levelling the repaired section. As soon as another lorry goes over it, it just breaks up again.

[0] https://www.boredpanda.com/pothole-measure-50mm-darren-twitt...