School Bus on DANGEROUS Road - This is Devon 2024 not a Top Gear Special

A sleepy Devon road in the Devon Country Side is the unlikely location for the next Top Gear / Grand Tour challenge - Getting a school bus full of primary school kids to school safety...
This is 2024 and this road has been like this now for YEARS, not weeks, not days...
The local Authority 'Devon County Council' are aware and have been for a long time. There Action - or rather lack of, is concerning.
AS A BIKER - you are on the roads more than most, and have a heightened awareness of bad roads and road defects - Please get reporting and reposting - The only way to get action is to name and shame those responsible for the road network. Road Casualties will only increase as the roads degrade.
To be continued...

[@LenScapoff]

Shocking. That's amongst the worst road erosion I've ever seen in the UK.

[@janinapalmer8368]

I bet the Council are quite proud of that road ... it took a long time in the making ...!

[@alexmiller7721]

I'm in a remote part of the NW Highlands and we have some shocking roads, but I have to agree with you. I've never seen a road in that state before. At least not one that's still in use. What surprises me in the video is that the bus drivers haven't refused to drive on it. If the kids can't get to school, surely the council will be put under so much pressure they'll have to fix it. Or maybe they'll just shut another school.

[@deea2680]

So I guess Cameron making a law to pay 0.7% of our GDP as an amount of international aid, was clearly unaffordable at the time and is today at at 0.5%.

[@richardk5246]

That road is a good analogy of our country.

[@TomRelubbus]

Cornwall always used to have better road surfaces than Devon. But now, in some places, Cornish roads are like driving across a ploughed field - so God only knows what Devon roads are like!

[@oboealto]

Tagging them personally is brilliant. Let's hear them saying now they didn't know about it! Great work by a wonderful citizen.

[@AndyMcClements]

Some lanes around my way are getting like that. The problem around here is massive agricultural vehicles, which have grown in size far beyond what the old lanes were built for, plus land use has changed from grazing pasture to intensive 'industrially' managed grassland with the cattle living in sheds. The farming sector is doing a huge amount of damage to the envornment and to the road infrastructure, but its continually allowed to get away with it. Pull all their subsidies say I and put the money into repairing the damage. The scale of the problem, and the cost of rebuilding all these roads to cope with the reality of modern traffic, dwarfs what the local highway authorities are resourced for.

[@xaiano794]

you can't cut the free money to farmers! How could they afford to heat their swimming pools or buy range rovers if you did that?!

[@juststee]

Its funny how the councils will no longer repair roads becaue they are 'underfunded ' i wrote to sheffield council under the freeodom of information act to find out what they spent on green air zones.. the response was just shy of two MILLION pounds.

[@spitfire4206]

WHAT ARE THE GOVERNMENT SPENDING OUR £63 BILLION PER YEAR IN ROAD FUND LICENCE ON

[@johnlawrence7386]

Immigrants.

[@graemeclifford6358]

Aid to Ukraine

[@daved4547]

It's all tucked, nice and safe in the Cayman Islands.

[@xaiano794]

VED brings in £7.4bn, roughly 8 times less than the figure you gave, and maintaining roads costs £11.5bn, but that is a little misleading since ALL the money for local lanes like this comes out of council tax, not out of any kind of vehicle charges - that only covers national roads, motorways and major routes.

[@xaiano794]

@@graemeclifford6358 Helping Ukraine is preferable to the alternative which would be 2-3 million refugees coming to the UK if russia won.

[@adrianbew9641]

In Cornwall I meet a bus on a road similar to this every day the bus isn't a single decker its a college doubledecker, its rediculous , that's followed by a school bus and sometimes meet. The roads were never designed to take this size of vehicle and the bus companys are endangeting everybody's life.

[@keystonedriving8180]

How do you get a pothole fixed in Devon? You invite BBC Spotlight along to its second birthday party. They even had cake! It was fixed two days later. Devon has more roads than any other county, but hasn't properly maintained them for years. Unless it's near Exeter, in which case money is no problem.

[@phillwainewright4221]

I live on a main road, in a large urban area, and for most of it's length it resembles a ploughed field.

[@keithhooper6123]

Worst road I have seen.Unacceptable.Get on the NO and Councillors ASAP.Need a revolt in this country.

[@dabbsy81]

They would rather spend the money on there latest DEI manager.

[@xaiano794]

i always find it comical that people complaining about such things (you) are always the last people to roll up their sleeves and do any work to solve problems

[@jimmythejock4376]

Our local authority has website that you can report defects using what three words location. I'm not saying its working but......😮

[@robertwilson93]

Most roads in Devon are nothing more than farm tracks,with a bit of tarmac on it.

[@thatsamemark]

They barely fix A roads and Motorways, clearly the priority isn't there at all. Your are doing a public service there sir.

[@graemewilliams6697]

Death road in Bolivia is in better condition than that.

[@beamboy07]

More reasons to own a land rover 👍🏼

[@christheDevoniantrucker]

The person that’s in charge of Devon Highways lives in Sidmouth and you will never see roads like that around where he lives 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[@3D_Printing]

The roof of school of is falling

[@p.istaker8862]

Clearly not from Devon.

[@TangoPasty]

How do you work that out?

[@p.istaker8862]

@@TangoPasty A large majority of the country roads in Devon are in an awful state. The one leading to where I live has been comparable to that one for many years and is only getting worse. Have given up complaining and sending photographs. That also includes my neighbours making complaints. If you shout enough, they may put some cold tar on some of the holes, only to have to repeat the process about twelve months later.

[@TangoPasty]

That’s fine… I just don’t understand the ‘clearly not from Devon pop’ like you suggest I should be ok and accept the state of the roads. Clearly don’t know me

[@janinapalmer8368]

You meant not ONLY from Devon ... it's ok .. we understand

[@imagseer]

What 3 Words places it near Copplestone.

[@xaiano794]

One of the main reasons this is happening is due to the tories. They ensured that funding for local roads comes from local council budgets, meaning wealthy areas get good roads, poor areas have poor quality roads.

[@jester5ify]

Yawn.

[@xaiano794]

@@jester5ify the expected attitude from a tory

[@jester5ify]

@@xaiano794 The expected response from an idiot.

[@juststee]

Not really true tbh... they have money, they spend it in the wrong places.. such as green air zones (the councils)

[@sammwood296]

Road is shocking!! Completely different note, why’s the dog not on a lead?? That irresponsible of you as a dog owner!

[@TheRighteousPolice]

There's ALWAYS one (oops sorry @BassBusMusic - two!) you should form a band 'The Righteous Twins'!

[@BassBusMusic]

Forgive me for saying this but you can contribute to road safety by walking your dog on the road on a lead. Please do it, for your dog's safety if nothing else.