Potholes across Cumberland have been called an ‘absolute nightmare’ after a local MP called for a war on potholes.

In his weekly column in the News and Star on January 20, Carlisle MP John Stevenson called on the council to take action on potholes which have are widespread across the city.

“More and more you see car drivers and cyclists take evasive action to avoid causing damage to their car or bicycle while travelling on the roads in Carlisle,” said John.

“I accept that road repairs, like anything else involving repair and maintenance, is remarkably unexciting – especially from a council or councillor’s perspective.

“After all, there are no ribbons to cut when filling in a pothole. Nevertheless, this basic service is absolutely vital to our everyday lives. It is one of those services, similar to collecting our bins or maintaining our street lighting and parks, that is unglamorous but still vitally important.

“You don’t really notice just how important they are until they start to become disregarded.”

News and Star readers have been sharing their pothole hotspots across the county.

“Wigton to Silloth side of Abbeytown is a disgrace,” said Neil.

“Maryport to Silloth is also showing signs of breaking up especially in the Beckfoot area. Its no-good fixing them unless they going to do a proper job.”

“Stonegarth from the Wigton Road junction to Langrigg junction is bad but there are far too many to name around the city,” said William whilst Isabel said that there is a “huge crater on the hill by the baths, on entrance to Currock Park Ave and they are also terrible on Dunmail Drive”.

Last year, more than £3m of government funding was allocated to fix potholes across the Cumberland council area. 

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The funding was granted to fix more than 60,000 potholes across the area to improve road standards for drivers, saving them money on repairs, and making it easier to get to work and see family.

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: "We're taking decisive action to fix potholes and resurface roads by investing an extra £8.3bn of redirected HS2 funding, the biggest ever funding increase for local road improvements and enough to resurface over 5,000 miles of roads across the country."