Hole in thinking

Looking at a newspaper picture of a frustrated councillor filling in a pothole himself, I knew it couldn’t be in Scotland’s pothole capital – Edinburgh – and reading on, learned he was in Wales!

Our Scottish Government can spend the money yet pulls purse strings tighter over grant-aid to local authorities with day-to-day responsibilities, including roads. Compensation claims, we regularly learn, are on the rise for vehicles damaged by pot-holed roads.

A Scots engineer, John Mcadam, invented road materials fit for his day nearly 300 years ago. Surely in this Space Age, when we talk about driverless cars, another Scot – if not our Scottish Government itself – can produce road materials fit for purpose and Scottish weather and for today’s volume of road traffic?

JIM CRAIGEN Downie Grove, Edinburgh Now that Edinburgh Council has given its backing to street closures for children’s play, could they perhaps consider giving each child a party bag of Tarmac?

With no traffic about, what better time to fix potholes.

BRIAN PETRIE Vivian Terrace, Edinburgh