{"id":371318,"date":"2026-01-15T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:31:08","slug":"national-pothole-day-the-souths-roads-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371318\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pothole Day: The South&#8217;s roads in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Pothole Day shines a light on the state of England&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Transport&#8217;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.dft.gov.uk\/local-road-maintenance-ratings-map\/index.html\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ratings map, external<\/a> judged councils on current highway conditions and how effectively they spend the government&#8217;s \u00a37.3bn, announced in November, to fix roads over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities in Portsmouth and West Berkshire achieved top ratings, while Slough Borough Council was given a bottom score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the annual pothole campaign day, here is a snapshot of the state of roads in the south of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you have an example you&#8217;d like to share, please get in touch using the contact form below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Pothole Day shines a light on the state of England&#8217;s roads. The Department for Transport&#8217;s recent ratings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-371318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}