Country Roads may not take me home

Why are the roads in Cambridgeshire so bad? There are large potholes on approach roads into Cambridge which just get bigger and bigger until workmen appear from behind the bushes and erect bollards, traffic lights and endless red and white fencing. They do all of this in order to protect themselves from drivers who want to run them over for holding up their journeys. Not only that, they usually bury vital pickaxes or spades by mistake and have to dig the entire road up all over again.

These same workmen then turn defence into attack by laying tiny pieces of pre-tarmac shingle on the roads and removing the central white lines. Roads all across the county are experiencing this at the moment. If selfish drivers - well most drivers - don't cause these chippings to fly through your windscreens by ignoring the 10 mph guidelines, the 10 mph guidelines boards will get you as they fall down underneath your cars, causing a sudeen swerve across the non-existent central reservation and into the path of more selfish drivers who are already furious at having to slow down in the first place.