The Department for Transport (DfT) has enlisted Deliveroo, Uber, Tesco and Ocado to help audit the nation’s potholes with support from highway data and mapping specialist Gaist and local authorities.
The data gathered will be used to help the DfT “paint the most comprehensive picture ever of where funding is most needed to make sure roads are not plagued by potholes”.
Transport secretaty Grant Schapps said: “We’re teaming up with delivery companies, who know the roads well, in order to map out where remaining potholes exist and then relentlessly target them with our record £2.5bn to pothole repair fund.”
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