Gone to pot

Taxi driver rages surfaces are worse than they've ever been

- SALLY HIND

A FED-UP taxi driver who took council staff on a “pothole tour” of Scotland’s biggest city says the roads have never been worse. 

Jason Porteous, who has been driving his cab for 20 years, led roads bosses around some of Glasgow’s worst craters after becoming tired of dodging them more than a year ago.

But the 50-year-old said almost every road in the city is now in some state of disrepair.

Jason hit out just weeks after dozens of fellow drivers staged a protost outside the City Chambers and campaigners called for the council to declare a “pothole emergency”.

He said he and his colleagues are furious at being “pushed” into expensive new vehicles to comply with Glasgow’s controversial Low Emission Zone (LEZ) only to risk major damage while at work.