Thousands earmarked to fix Harrow's potholes (From Harrow Times)

I would have thought with the vast income from parking tickets etc there should be more than enough money in the highways budget.
Does this mean Cllr Susan Hall will be implementing more yellow lines to boost the coiffers for another year?

On the subject of potholes, are you aware that good 'ol Labour and the LibDems despite having blown most of the balances and hiked Council Tax to record levels failed to carry out vital repairs for twelve years?

Did you know that because of this there is a £150 MILLION backlog in maintenance and repairs?

Remember Tony McNulty's !Sod the Potholes" rant, when it was suggested that they fix the roads? Instead they blew the money on committees, offices, initiatives and announcements while the borough was left to rot. Oh yes, and never forget the fact that they didn't even sweep up the leaves. The deliberate neglect of our streets was admitted to by the then leader Cllr Archie Foulds.

So now the streets are swept, the potholes aren't being "sodded" and rather than waste money on useless edifices it is actually going into the front line.

As for the Yellow Line jibe, I too hate yellow lines and CPZs, but what would YOU do with narrow, congested roads built in the early part of the 20th century and before?? Leave them as they were, a free-for-all with residents unable to park near their own homes?

We Conservatives have done a very good job in rescuing Harrow. If Labour or the LibDems had had a clue about running the Borough we wouldn't have had that mountain to climb in the first place.

You only have to look at the MESS that this incompetent, puritanical, finger-wagging, control-freak Labour excuse for a "government" have done to England and the UK to know that letting them continue will be more of the same.

It is amazing to note that Labour do things TO people and always by force, penalties and coersion. We try to do things FOR people with their agreement and after reasonable discussion, oh yes and at LOWER cost.

Tax is not like charity, and more tax doersn't mean better services. In Harrow we have PROVED that beyond any shadow of doubt. Services UP and backed up by independent auditors and resident surveys, tax FROZEN and costs DOWN.

It may be useful to remember that at Election Time.

Marvellous then Cllr Zeid. Considering all the snow took place a couple of months back, action is finally being taken after the event. Again.

Shouldn't Harrow Council look at the state of all the roads and pavements on a regular basis? Repsond back to people and take action who report such things in a more timely action? The potholes have only just been fixed on the Queensbury circle roundabout and they were like going into a ditch for over a month.

Come to Queensbury and Edgware and see the state of our pavements and roads. Then tell me that the Conservatives have "rescued Harrow". Not here you haven't. In fact, our road didn't get gritted when it was a "priority route" which mean no buses were running on Harrow run roads north of Queensbury on 22 December.

Fact of the matter is, the further away you are from the centre of the borough, the services decrease a hell of alot.

With 19 teams working on pothole repairs and hundreds if not thousands of them to fix - you don't show much patience for a wiseone. I live on the border with Hillingdon and the services I receive here do not decrease away from the centre of the borough. So there - you're wrong. Not so wise now eh?