Uneconomic attempt to fill the many potholes in roads

I realise that you are probably inundated with similar mails, but I think what I saw on the A82 at the tourist car park at Glencoe takes the biscuit, and certainly to me at least illustrates a complete waste of public money ‘box ticking’ on the appalling state of our roads.

I travel Glasgow/ Appin via the A82 on most weeks of the year.

Driving south last week, I pointed out a very deep and dangerous pothole on the northbound carriageway just before a bridge on the hill down from the Glencoe tourist car park opposite the lost valley.

It was filled about three weeks ago and is now, of course, empty and once again hazardous.

Almost on cue a few hundred yards further up the road opposite the tourist car park we saw a BEAR Scotland employee pouring a small bag of cold asphalt into another water-filled pothole.

What a waste of public money, especially in these times of cutbacks. I can only presume that the price of a bag of DIY asphalt is a fair exchange for yet another box ticked in the contractor’s contract.

I appreciate the articles The Oban Times has historically run highlighting the state of our roads, but surely it makes little or no economic sense to use Elastoplast when all that is required is proper stitching? Steve Jeffrey, Belhaven Terrace, Glasgow.