People of Glasgow compare their city’s potholes to those in Europe

Following widespread arguments that European roads are in better condition than those in the UK, we asked Glaswegians what they think.

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00:00Well, there's always been a lot of European investment in roads, and since EU money has

00:04been withdrawn, particularly, I remember when the Republic of Ireland had got a lot of investment

00:08into roads, and theirs are, particularly the main ones to Dublin and across the Galway

00:13and down to Cork, they are fine, well-tarmacked, they're not troublesome, unlike in Britain

00:20where with everything, nobody wants to admit that it's their responsibility, so local authorities

00:24are going to say they don't have the money, government is going to say, well, it's up

00:29to you, highways authorities are going to say, well, we need to get money from somewhere

00:34else, clearly it's something people like to complain about, and rightly, they fill them

00:39in on the cheap, they get emptied again, like anything, there needs to be a wholesale look

00:46at it and an investment properly across the piece.

00:49The roads in Europe are lovely, but even up north, the roads up north, run by Bair, their

00:55roads are perfect, if you have a motorbike up there, you can actually go for miles up

01:01north, but down here, the roads are terrible.