Road maintenance campaign site, Potholes.co.uk, is searching for Britain’s best pothole prose as it continues to highlight the blight of the nation’s poor road surfaces during the UK’s annual “Pothole Season”.
Warranty Direct, which set up Potholes.co.uk two years ago as a sounding board and source of advice for disgruntled motorists, reported a 13 percent year-on-year rise in the number of pothole-related axle and suspension claims after the wintry weather at the start of 2009.
In a play on the traditional 14-line sonnet, the public are being invited to submit 140-character poems about their pothole experiences or outpourings of anger about the state of our roads via Twitter. The top three entries will win an iPod Touch.
Potholes.co.uk will monitor users on Twitter who use the hashtags “#potholes” or “#pothole”. Motorists and road users can also submit their Twitterprose via the www.potholes.co.uk website itself.
