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Monkmoor Road, very uneven & extremely bumpy road surface

Reported via desktop in the Carriageway surface problem category anonymously at 12:19, Mon 18 November 2024

Sent to Shropshire Council less than a minute later. Council ref: 14160351.

The problem is not with the breaking up of tarmac but the extremely uneven surface. I'm not sure how well it would photograph. The road surface is so ridiculously uneven & so makes any drive up and down Monkmoor Road extremely bumpy. We live just of this road. There is no other way of us exiting from our home address other than to travel on that road. It's been a nightmare for years and years. We've been waiting and hoping that it would eventually come up on the council's list of repairs. I have worked for Oswestry Borough & Shropshire Council, and also a Parish Council, & have also worked for a road surfacing company, so have some experience of the pressures that are put on councils/councillors and funds etc. We have been trying to avoid adding to that pressure ourselves for years & years. It won't have done our cars any good in the many years we've lived here. But now I have poor health so also have to have my mobility scooter in the back of the car very often. I need this to give me some form of independence. But the scooter is also now getting battered about, as well as the car itself. We have kept hoping it would have come up naturally on the schedule of works ages ago. Other residents must be suffering, too. We are at the point now of thinking we must try to finally to get something done about it. We have thought of prepping a petition type letter and getting everyone to sign it etc...There are very many residents who will have to use this road. It is unavoidable for so many. But decided to contact the council first directly. We are hoping that the council will see (easily) how bad it is & understand how patient we have been & finally get instruction to do some work to level it out. I'd like the council to consider if it were their only access-road when leaving their home how they would feel.

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    Posted by Shropshire Council at 12:19, Mon 18 November 2024

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