Cor, wouldn't it be useful to *predict* where pot-holes were going to be rather than waiting for them to occur?
Sort of thing a bit of machine-learning would be perfect for, wouldn't you say?
@Edent that's easy to predict.
If there was a pothole there 180 days ago, and no pothole today, there will be another pothole in <180 days.
Because councils are somehow both "cheap" and "wasteful", contractors are workshy gobshites with long-term maintenance contracts, and the motorist is just the poor schmuck in the middle wishing that road tax was still a ring-fenced thing.