‘Cambridgeshire councillors should spend a day in a wheelchair’



A man has told councillors to a spend a day in a wheelchair so they can understand what it is like for his disabled mother to navigate potholes.Frazer Merritt, 44, said he was left “shocked” when he returned to Cambridge after five years to reportedly see the same potholes that were present before he had left.His 82-year-old mother, Chris Merritt, meanwhile, added that the state of the roads and pavements made it difficult for her to get around and her complaints go unanswered.Cambridgeshire County Council said that safe travel was a “key priority” and it was spending more than £78m on “delivering highways maintenance”.