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Across the West Midlands, motorists say potholes are becoming more common and more dangerous. Councils point to funding pressures, traffic levels and repeated wet weather as repairs struggle to keep up.

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00:00Don't get me started on this one. I'm an ex-local council employee. I think the potholes are
00:07absolutely shocking. The state of the roads is shocking. Rubbish collection is shocking.
00:11There is very little that is being done right by the local government at this time for Birmingham
00:16people. Yeah, I mean the pothole problem is because they moved over to what they thought
00:19was the cheaper style of road service and it hasn't worked. Apparently it was a German style
00:25where they do maintain them regularly so the services they're using soon break up.
00:30Car usage is going up and the roads are probably not suited to the amount of car usage we're doing at the moment.
00:38Well obviously I think everyone will say that the potholes are absolutely terrible both you know
00:44throughout the city really and no I don't think the city council is doing enough. Perhaps they
00:50shouldn't be spending so much on trying to break the bin workers dispute and putting more money
00:56into the infrastructure in terms of the roads.
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