Today is National Pothole Day.

Some drivers could be forgiven for thinking every day is National Pothole Day given the number that blight the roads but today is the day where our road craters are highlighted.

At the Evening Times we have launched our Spothole campaign where we ask you to report the city’s biggest road craters and send us you pictures so we can highlight the one that need urgent attention.

We want you to share your photos and dashcam footage of the holes that drive you to distraction.

Latest figures show pothole complaints to the council increased last year.

Our Spothole campaign has the backing of a leading motoring organisation who say that drivers are fed up with the state of the roads.

The Institute of Advanced Motoring IAM Roadsmart said it supported the Evening Times Spothole.

The organization said it has surveyed 7000 of its members across the UK and found that the eight out of ten said there are more potholes than three years ago and almost half (47%) said they had experienced damage to a vehicle as a result of hitting a pothole.

Neil Greig, IAM Roadsmart spokesman, called for a strategy to deal with the backlog of repairs.

He said: “We are looking to the authorities such as Glasgow City Council to work together with Holyrood to produce a long term and sustainable plan to reduce the backlog of road maintenance before yet another damaging winter sets things back even further.

“The figures from our survey are compelling and it is increasingly clear that those who use the roads on a daily basis are pretty much united on this one - enough time has now passed for a long term plan to be in place and for work to have started.

“As our survey has shown, this is now the motoring public’s number one priority.”

Glasgow City Council said it has several road repair teams responding to potholes across the city.

Last year the severe weather and the ‘Beast from the East’ storm led to increased damage to road surfaces as ice and plummeting temperatures leads to break up of tarmac and minor defects become potholes.

A spokesman for Glasgow city Council said the 20 repair squads were mobilised.

He said they were able to repair up to 500 potholes in a day.

Adding “ during January, February and March last year there were 15,000 potholes repaired.”

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