Is it me or do we have an obsession with potholes in Blackburn?

This week workmen have been busy resurfacing a number of roads in the area.

Now, I have no issue with fixing roads that need it but there was nothing wrong with Barbara Castle Way the last time I looked.

Maybe I am beginning to get a little short-sighted in my old age but I drive along that stretch of road regularly and there really was nothing to replace.

There are other stretches of road that were themselves recently resurfaced. Or has my memory failed me?

Are we using the same high grade tarmac they use in Pakistan?

I went to Pakistan some years ago and the roads were in better shape on my previous visit in 1992.

Either we are having some pretty bad weather or the tarmac simply isn’t up to scratch.

I know this might not be the world’s greatest problem, not with that fatwa on people visiting Mars, but I suggest we save the money for road repairs until they actually need repairing.

Yes, I know we moan when they are resurfaced and then moan when they are not but either make them last a fair few years or just don’t do it all.

I can’t recollect our roads being replaced on such a regular basis before. You built a new road and it lasted.

Some months back I got stopped along Darwen Street and found workmen removing the cobbles.

When asked why, they responded by saying too many people were complaining about tripping over them. Now the street looks a bit of a mess with tarmac and cobbles outside what is still the main building in the town — the Cathedral.

Maybe cobbles weren’t a good idea in the first place — or they just aren’t what a northern town is used too.

On another note, I think the rolling news coverage of the floods will now subside.

The reason being the jetstream has moved north and back to where it is supposed to be . . . right above our heads.