{"id":3006,"date":"2012-12-05T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T10:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:47:51","slug":"reporting-road-problems-to-east-lothian-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/reporting-road-problems-to-east-lothian-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting road problems to East Lothian Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The last few days of freezing temperatures have taken their toll on the main roads through Pencaitland with tarmac breaking to form fresh potholes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/files\/2012\/02\/pavement-damage.jpg\" alt=\"A section of pavement in the centre of Pencaitland broken up by heavy vehicles parking wheels over edge. A child tripped over the rubble caused by this damage.\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-902\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of pavement in the centre of Pencaitland broken up by heavy vehicles parking wheels over edge. A child tripped over the rubble caused by this damage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>On both sides of the Tyne Bridge there are rapidly growing potholes which could damage a vehicle or, as happens in wet weather, splash pedestrians, particularly whilst they walk on the narrow section of pavement.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that in this digital age it really couldn&#8217;t be easier to report problems to the Council, both directly or via other means. Here&#8217;s one method&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixmystreet.com\" title=\"Fix My Street\">Fixmystreet.com<\/a><\/strong> is a fantastic concept from the mySociety team, which in turn is a charitable initiative from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcod.org.uk\/UK_Citizens_Online_Democracy\"><strong>UK Citizens Online Democracy<\/strong><\/a>. All you need to do in order to report a local issue is enter your postcode, supply (optional) contact details, upload a picture (it&#8217;s better if you have one). Then just hit the send button.<\/p>\n<p>You then receive a confirmation email with a link from FixMyStreet. Click the link to confirm and you&#8217;re done. Your local council, in this case East Lothian, will been alerted courtesy of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixmystreet.com\" title=\"Fix My Street\">Fixmystreet.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><H3><B>Contact the Council<\/B><\/H3>Alternatively, you can go directly to East Lothian Council with reports of road problems by filling in an <a href=\"https:\/\/selfservice.eastlothian.gov.uk\/Ef3_Live\/template\/roadrepair.html\" title=\"Report road problems to East Lothian Council\"><strong>online form<\/strong><\/a>. You can choose to register or submit problems anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>It then asks for the street and town plus details of the fault. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to send in a picture with the submission unfortunately. Once submitted you are given a reference number for follow up and you receive an email confirming the submission has been received.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s an emergency or particularly urgent you can call:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>01875 824305 during office hours (Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm or Friday 8am-4pm)<\/li>\n<li>01875 612818 out of office hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><P><br \/><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days of freezing temperatures have taken their toll on the main roads through Pencaitland with tarmac breaking to form fresh potholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,304,350,823,824,831],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-east-lothian-council","tag-pedestrians","tag-reporting","tag-roads","tag-safety","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}