Ryan Bridge: Are we about to witness the return of the pothole?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 27, 2026 · 1m · transcript

Are we about to witness the return of the pothole?

Both Labour and National want to freeze increases to the petrol tax.

Labour would stop 22c a litre over three years. The Nats probably won't, coalition willing, go ahead with the 12c hike pencilled in for January.

The problem is this money goes into a big fund —along with RUCS from trucks— to pay for building and fixing our roads.

Remember at the last election, people were angry as hell about potholes. They're nasty things. Wheely annoying. Rim-wreckers. Rim-shredders.

Panel beaters had a field day, performing more rim jobs than you could…