{"id":33407,"date":"2025-02-23T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33407"},"modified":"2025-02-23T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:09:34","slug":"potholes-are-a-universal-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33407","title":{"rendered":"Potholes are a universal problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Potholes are a universal problem, from Audlett Drive in Abingdon to Ziwani in Zanzibar.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025022301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe road surface of Audlett Drive near the junction with Barton Lane has many cracks developing. <\/p>\n<p>One pothole beside a drain a little way down from the junction is becoming a danger. The pothole was reported to Oxfordshire County Council on FixMyStreet on 3rd February. The anonymous reporter said, &#8216;The pothole has been here for months and is getting bigger and deeper.&#8217;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025022302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRed paint markings were added after an inspection took place by 17th February. One driver told me they hit the pothole on Friday 21st February, and now have a \u00a3260 repair bill for a broken suspension spring. Other drivers have probably also suffered.<\/p>\n<p>So drive carefully or you too might hear that sickening thud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potholes are a universal problem, from Audlett Drive in Abingdon to Ziwani in Zanzibar. The road surface of Audlett Drive near the junction with Barton Lane has many cracks developing. One pothole beside a drain a little way down from the junction is becoming a danger. The pothole was reported to Oxfordshire County Council on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}