Roads the U.K. are in such dire condition that one village has decided to mock them setting up a "pothole theme park". Pothole Land opened last week the remote Welsh community of Pontfadog. Visitors to the park get to experience the thrills driving along one of the UK's thousands of badly potholed roads. Park officials promise the park's potholes are "the deepest, longest and widest Wales". They added motorists will get to navigate "two kilometres potholes, very little actual road to spoil the fun". Some the potholes that scar the road are almost 50 cm deep. One villager joked that, "they're not potholes, they're bomb craters".
Decades underinvestment have left British roads an alarming state of disrepair. It is almost impossible to go a journey without having to negotiate cratered roads, and thus risk damage to your car. A Pontfadog resident lamented that no repairs had been done to his village's roads over five years. Another villager complained repairs to her car. She said: "The cost to our cars is phenomenal." Parts the road are almost impassable. The conditions are so atrocious that refuse collection drivers often refuse to drive to the village. The U.K. government has set aside £1.6 billion ($1.95 billion) the next two years to provide "immediate fixes" and to repair seven million potholes.
