Potholes on a crater-strewn road have deteriorated so much that they’re now big enough to lie down in.
Despite years of constant complaints to the council, the B7068 route just outside Lockerbie, still hasn’t been fixed.
Fed-up Sam Aitken is now pleading for the “crazy” road to be repaired properly before residents need to start taking a 10-mile detour to avoid it.
Ms Aitken, 56, lives in one of the six houses at the hamlet of Bankshill and travels on the road every day.
She said: “Yellow paint marked the outline of the potholes but it was there for so long without anything being done that it’s worn away.
“On some parts of the road there are potholes across the entire width that you have nowhere to go.
“Some of them are so bad I can lie down in them.”
Ms Aitken and her neighbours have had to fork out for repairs to their cars that have been damaged by the potholes.
She said: “I’ve got two dented wheel rims, one of my neighbours has cracked two alloys. I’ve got another neighbour that dented a wheel rim and he’s constantly pumping his tyre up.
“Short of taking a 10-mile detour around Middlebie to get to Lockerbie, this stretch of road is unavoidable.
“The worst of it is the first mile or so after you leave Lockerbie. It’s a lot of potholes for a small section of road.”
The local authority did repair a small stretch of the road several months ago but that caused confusion to locals.
Ms Aitken said: “The council resurfaced parts of it a while ago at Scroggs Bridge which baffled people around here because it wasn’t anywhere near the worst part of the road. Some of the potholes have been filled on occasion but they’re never sealed and the quick-fix lasts a few weeks before it starts again.
“Being rural we get a lot of tractors and lorries going up and down. It needs to be properly maintained.
“We’ve been complaining about this for years. What do we have to do to warrant the council making an effort?”
The Standard contacted the council for comment but did not receive a response by the time we went to print.
