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Terrible state of your English Highways including length of M56
Sent to National Highways less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 8603972.
I run tourist buses which operate out of my home town in Carinthia, Austria. We regularly run trips for old mens and womens from Austria to tourist distinations throughout Europe. We have recently run several trips to Ireland and had to cross through England several times. I must say your road networks is a shameful disgrace. We cross Austria, Germany, Belgium, France and Ireland with no litter or rubbish on the motorways - but then we get to England. We have never seen anything like it - road after road of mounds of rubbish. I mentioned this to an English colleague who said they complain but you only ever clean a section of roads once or twice a year and get excuse that this is due to mens throwing the rubbish. Let me say this is wrong - even in Austria we have mens throwing rubbish however our government body clears it regularly. Why dont you? As I say you are a disgrace and would have your contract removed in 10 minutes in all other European countries!
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Thank you for contacting National Highways about litter.
We have passed your report to our local inspector who will review the issue as part of their next safety inspection and arrange any remedial action.
Littering by people is, unfortunately, a behaviour that has a big impact on some parts of our roads. We aim to keep our roads as tidy and free of litter as we can. Our litter picking is carefully planned to try to minimise the impact it has on road users and the safety of our people.
Litter picks often require lane closures, which are disruptive to traffic flow. To help reduce the frequency of this disruption, where we can, we usually combine our reactive litter picks with other maintenance work which can result in what appears to be a delayed response.
Kind regards
National Highways
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