Sir – Surrey County Council's process for looking after our roads is just not good enough. I've reported pot holes in the same stretch of road again, and again, and again. Each time, after possibly six or eight weeks, one's hopes are raised by the pot holes being marked with white paint – only to be dashed as another six or eight weeks go by before eventually the road

contractors turn up, bodge some tarmac into the hole, not bothering to level it off properly, while ignoring the new crop of pot holes that have appeared while waiting for the first lot to be repaired.

I don't mind reporting them now and again, but I despair at the prospect of continually reporting them, to no real effect. The way our roads are being maintained, it can't be long before they completely fall apart.

They seem to think that they can use a reasonable and desirable provision for the public to report the occasional pothole that the SCC Highways road contractors have missed, to delegate to the public the entire task of identifying where road repairs are needed.

Presumably the next step will be to delegate the task of repairing them too. After all, we know where the problems are on our local roads!

Perhaps a month after filling in the pothole reporting web page, SCC would deliver a small pot of paint so the complainer may mark the pothole for repair; and then a month later a small bucket of tarmac so that they can fill it up.

This additional economical method of repairing the roads should ensure that we soon no longer need to complain of poor quality road maintenance in Surrey.

Jenny Barnes, Green Lane, Godalming