Roads in the U.K. are in a dire condition. A village has decided to mock them with a "pothole theme park". Pothole Land opened last week in a remote area of Wales. Park visitors get to experience the thrill of driving along one of the UK's thousands of badly potholed roads. The park promises its potholes are "the deepest, longest and widest in Wales". Motorists will get to navigate "two kilometres of potholes, with very little actual road to spoil the fun". Some of the potholes are almost 50 cm deep. One villager joked that, "they're not potholes, they're bomb craters".

Decades of underinvestment have left British roads in a mess. It is almost impossible to drive without having to negotiate craters. This risks damage to the car. A resident complained that no repairs had been done to his village's roads in five years. Another villager complained about the "phenomenal" cost of car repairs because of potholes. Conditions are so bad that refuse collection drivers refuse to drive to one area. The U.K. government has set aside $1.95 billion over the next two years to provide "immediate fixes" to repair seven million potholes.