Pot-hole reporting

If we accept that we are not going to have our roads resurfaced any time soon.  We should not accept it but let's do so for the sake of argument. If we also accept that pot-holes are being left unfixed for far too long and often poorly fixed when they are.  What we should expect is to be told what the timetable is for roads to be resurfaced and pot-holes to be fixed. In my view anyone should be able to go on-line and find out when their road is to be resurfaced or when a pot-hole is to be scheduled for repair. I assume that Surrey has a database for its engineers, supervisors and work-people to enable them to plan their work.  It is relatively cheap and simple to build a website that accesses the Surrey database and provides the public with what they want to know. Such a website and web-service connection to Surrey's database could be built in a few days and if Surrey cannot get change from £10,000 then it is going to the wrong supplier.  My company commissions such work for few less. You might say that spending this money doesn't repair a single pot-hole and you would be correct. But it would repair Surrey's relationship with its people. They even extend it for use by phone.  You see a pot hole and you can either report it (if it is new) but more importantly you can see when it is going to be repaired and when that stretch of road is planned to be resurfaced. It would remove many people's frustration.  It would also make the whole repair system more robust because people will be able to see whose streets are being repaired before theirs is. Christian Mahne, our new Weybridge county councillor,  was enamoured of the idea when I put it too him recently - he is keen to take it forward.  I wish him every success.