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To: Edinburgh City Council
Mend Edinburgh Road Surfaces
Maintenance of roads in Edinburgh falls within the responsibility of the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) and it has a legal responsibility to maintain roads to a safe standard under the Highways Act 1980.
The shocking and dangerous state of our city roads is testament to the glaring reality that CEC is clearly failing in meeting its legal responsibility whilst striving to extend tramways at budget-breaking expense and without reference to citizens.
Why is this important?
Please petition the City of Edinburgh Council to repair our roads which are in many places more suited to a third world country.
If you have driven anywhere in Edinburgh, you will be well aware of how dangerously potholed the roads are. For cyclists, it is difficult to avoid potholes without risking life and limb - and for motorists, the damage to vehicles must run into £millions, for most of which the CEC will deny any liability.
If you Google "Edinburgh potholes", you will see how ludicrous the situation has become with one woman planting flowers with 35 litres of compost needed to fill the hole.
The stories abound, yet the CEC has long insisted there were no potholes waiting to be repaired, hiding behind their definition of a pothole and the sheer brazen complacency that allows such incompetence to be left responsible for our road infrastructure. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/council-no-potholes-claim-is-laughable-1-3344166
Please help to force CEC to address this situation with urgency.
