Bikers' beef with Baddow High Street

From the archive, first published Wednesday 11th Apr 2007.

A CHELMSFORD road has been voted the worst in Britain.

Readers of Motor Cycle News (MCN) were asked to nominate the worst stretch of Tarmac in the country and a panel of experts narrowed the list down to ten.

And after thousands of votes were cast, Great Baddow High Street topped the poll.

The upside for local road users

is that the magazine has now pledged to pay for the repairs to bring the road up to scratch, though Essex County Council have yet

to give their view on the situation.

High Street was nominated by MCN reader Peter Antrobus who also pointed out the real dangers caused by the tatty Tarmac.

He described the road as looking like a jigsaw with its cracked fault lines and botched repairs. The worst stretch is right in front of a zebra crossing, just at the breaking point.

The road "ticks all the bad road boxes" from slippery white lines to badly repaired potholes and destabilising cracks.