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Roads in the U.K. in such a dire condition that one village has decided to them by setting up a "pothole theme park". Pothole Land last week near the remote Welsh community of Pontfadog. Visitors to the park to experience the thrills of along one of the UK's thousands of badly potholed roads. Park officials the park's potholes are "the deepest, longest and widest in Wales". They added motorists will get to "two kilometres of potholes, with very little actual road to the fun". Some of the potholes that the road are almost 50 cm deep. One villager that, "they're not potholes, they're bomb craters".

Decades of underinvestment have British roads in an alarming state of disrepair. It is almost impossible to on a journey without having to cratered roads, and thus risk damage to your car. A Pontfadog resident that no repairs had been to his village's roads in over five years. Another villager about repairs to her car. She said: "The cost to our cars is phenomenal." Parts of the road are almost impassable. The conditions are so atrocious that refuse collection drivers often to drive to the village. The U.K. government has aside £1.6 billion ($1.95 billion) over the next two years to "immediate fixes" and to seven million potholes.