This winter seems to have done for most of the roads in London. There are some scarily large potholes all along my cycle route to work. On the plus side if one does cause you to 'eat tarmac' (not recommended, I tried it last year) there isn't a lot of tarmac left to eat.

I know that money is tight and the roads have taken a pounding but the laughable 'repairs' that Lewisham have been undertaking have got even worse over the last few months. The man with his shovel full of tarmac doesn't even bother to pack it down any more and leaves it in an attractive loose hillock. I guess this is to allow the passing traffic to compress it but all that seems to happen is the tarmac gets knocked out/washed away.

Job well done Lewisham...