Just heard this on You and Yours on Radio 4. German town selling off it's potholes for around £45. The money gets the pothole repaired, and in return the purchaser gets to have a plaque installed in the road where the hole was (with whatever they want written on it, I think)
Seems like a great fun way of getting the work funded. And it'll make the streets more interesting! I like.
Just heard this on You and Yours on Radio 4. German town selling off it's potholes for around £45. The money gets the pothole repaired, and in return the purchaser gets to have a plaque installed in the road where the hole was (with whatever they want written on it, I think)
Seems like a great fun way of getting the work funded. And it'll make the streets more interesting! I like.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,681691,00.html