Originally Posted by
Ninthace
I though it was being ironical!
No irony whatsoever. I have barely ever seen a pothole in a motorway surface, i.e. a defect that I would have to swerve to avoid should I see it by day, or that would cause me to think “w.t.f. did I just hit, and is the vehicle damaged” if I ran over it by night. Non-motorways are a different matter, a lot of very poor surfaces, but as I commented above, I am always impressed by how good motorway surfaces are, and particularly the engineering that prevents standing water and flows of water across the carriageways.