It has taken me 11 months to get the council to repair two bad potholes where I live, one of them was 11cm deep. They kept telling me they would be repaired, but they never were. They marked them repaired on the on-line reporting system - I guess so the figures don't look bad.

I dont know how we are winning the war,i reported a full road nearly 12 months ago and not one pothole has been repaired.The road in question being the Weddicar bridge road between,Frizington and Hensingham.

It is inevitable that the pothole situation will be worse during a bad winter and better during a mild one. Last winter was mild, during the previous two the roads suffered from a lot of freeze-thaw action. I'm glad to see the response times have improved. If there are fewer repairs needed, assuming there are no other changes, the response time will be reduced.

What a load of cobblers. The CCC use such pathetic measures as reporting and compensation claims PAID OUT, to qualify their quality of service. How many claims have they rejected? The crews out there go to fix reported pot holes yet drive over numerous ones to get to the specified one on their list. Last year I reported one which had numerous repairs to it each lasting a few days. Eventually a proper job was done BUT it resulted in some 18 square metres of road repair. Proper job first time would have sorted out the small pothole.
CCC seem to spout out anything and hope we will believe it, yet the evidence is out there, don't even have to try hard to find them. Must be time of year for the back slapping in CCC.

As a road cyclist the potholes seem to be getting worse. The quick fix of popping a little bit of tarmac in to holes is not working. And Copeland seem to be the worst for this. When there is a half descent road they put chippings on it and within weeks the road is terrible. I think i will be getting my Mountain bike out to ctcle the roads around Whitehaven.

djr - pot holes will appear - this is inevitable - the question is do people look where they're going when they drive? Always quick to blame someone else.

What a load of......people are fed up of reporting them. Am not sure which if the several hundred potholes damaged y car.....

What's the difference between statistics and lies? If calls about potholes are down, is this down to an acceptance of the situation by people sick of banging their head against a brick wall? The most pertinent stats appear at the end. The roads with 'some deterioration' or 'considerable deterioration' are above national average. The biggest roads scandal is why it takes so long to drive from West Cumbria to anywhere. The lack of effective road links out of here is a deliberate containment effort in the event of nuclear disaster. And that cannot be denied whether this post is published or not.

i work in a garage and we still see on a regular basis cars with broken coil springs,buckled wheels & damaged tyres i would say approx 80% of the time when you ask the customer what happened you get the same answer "i drove down a pot hole" when they try and claim from the council they give up they are sick of been passed from pillar to post!!!

There is a dangerous pothole on Cold Fell which was reported months ago. A car went into this unvisible hole recently, it was damaged and had to be towed out. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. There should be tape around the area.