{"id":59310,"date":"2026-03-17T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=59310"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:57:49","slug":"potholes-causing-safety-risk-and-damage-to-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/potholes-causing-safety-risk-and-damage-to-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Potholes causing safety risk and damage to cars."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

People in Sheffield have said they are fed up of potholes in roads which they said are damaging vehicles and posing a risk to traffic safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An urgent council meeting was called last month to discuss this issue that is taking over the roads of Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The council currently has a 25-year \u00a32.2 billion deal with contractor Amey to maintain its roads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Wright, a 19 year old University student who lives in Endcliffe Crescent, said: “I’ve had two punctures already while I’ve been here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Its costing me money.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Wright cycles on his bike to get to the University of Sheffield, he said “Its a safety issue, some of them are really deep.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ron Jarman, a retired 78 year old who lives on St Albans drive, said: “Its a safety hazard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Jarman said the council could improve if ‘the people they contract to do it actually do a decent job in the first place’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: “Its like sticking a non water-proof plaster on your finger then washing up and wondering why it came off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If they spent more money actually repairing the potholes before they got big, and doing it properly they wouldn’t have to keep coming back and doing them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s not rocket science.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Jones, a retired 64 year old who lives on Taptonville Road, said: “There’s always been an issue with potholes in Sheffield, this council is useless, so I don’t have any expectations of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “I have done damage to my car.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Jones doesn’t believe the council does a sufficient job at fixing the issue of potholes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: “It doesn’t make a difference because its just fill a hole and go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There’s no point doing anything with this council other than getting rid of them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonny ward, 49 year old Dry Stone Waller from the Peak District, said: “I hit one on my small bike last year, fell off the bike and a concrete wagon was coming right behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They can be quite dangerous.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr ward said: “I went cycle touring in Spain last year, I didn’t see one pothole.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheffield City Council have been contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People in Sheffield have said they are fed up of potholes in roads which they said are damaging vehicles and posing a risk to traffic safety. An urgent council meeting was called last month to discuss this issue that is taking over the roads of Sheffield. The council currently has a 25-year \u00a32.2 billion deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":59484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","category-top-story-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59311,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310\/revisions\/59311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}