Shropshire Council to tackle more potholes during July
Shropshire Council will be tackling more potholes and other defects on roads across the county during July.
The council's three Multihog road planer machines will be repairing issues on 16 routes across the county.
The Multevo Multihog planes off the road surface to enable a squared-off hole to be filled by a following gang. It’s quicker than having to saw-cut and break-out the defective road by hand – tackling potholes and other defects more quickly and effectively
In July the Multihogs and their crews are set to treat the following roads:
North Shropshire
4 to 8 July – A528 Cockshutt to Harmer Hill
11 to 12 July – A51 Nantwich Road ,Woore
13 to 16 July – Wolfhead island to the Avenue
18 to 21 July – Queens Head to the Go Kart, Rednal
22 July – Trefonen Villiage Hall entrance
26 to 29 July – A495 Whittington to Ellesmere
Central Shropshire
4 to 11 July – Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury
12 to 15 July – Frankwell Island, Shrewsbury
18 to 19 July – Belvidere Avenue, Shrewsbury
TBC – Shifnal Roundabout
South Shropshire
1 to 2 July – B4368 Watling Street junction to Tea Rooms phase 5
4 to 8 July – Waterloo Road, Clun
11 to 15 July – B4376 Much Wenlock
18 to 20 July – A442 Sutton Maddock
21 to 28 July – B4214 Tenbury Rd
29 July to 2 August – B4378 Shipton to Brockton
Dean Carroll, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member with responsibility for highways, said:
“The Multihog is a hugely important part of our work to tackle potholes and improve the county’s roads.
“It’s a really important part of our strategy to deliver meaningful repairs to roads across Shropshire, and make them safer for all road users.”
Since April 2021, more than 32,000 potholes have been repaired across the Shropshire Council area.
Methods used include the new Multihog road planer, two Roadmaster vehicles which are used to carry out jet-patching on rural roads, ‘find and fix’ repairs, and more traditional repairs by gangs.
Meanwhile, the council’s annual resurfacing and surface dressing programmes help to improve the county’s roads and prevent potholes forming in the first place.
A further eleven stretches of roads across Shropshire are set to be resurfaced in July as part of Shropshire Council’s annual resurfacing programme.
