Britain’s pothole problem is driven more by heavy vehicles than heavy traffic | Letter

Cllr Richard Robertson says flaws in poorly maintained roads develop faster with heavier cars and calls for a rethink of road taxYour article (‘In a rut’: cost of fixing pothole-plagued roads in England and Wales soars to £17bn, 18 March) mentions “heavy traffic” and “poor road construction” as some of the causes of the pothole proliferation, but it’s heaviness of vehicles, not volume of traffic, which is most to blame.The road surface problem is r