Great news for Oxfordshire’s roads today as Conservative-led Oxfordshire County Council has announced the addition of another new Dragon patching machine to its road fixing fleet.
The Dragon uses a combination of compressed air, heat, bitumen and chippings to repair holes carrying out fixes faster and more cheaply than conventional repair methods. And thanks to the speed of the Dragon Patcher’s repair system it can fix identified potholes whilst, at the same time, repairing nearby minor surface defects which could potentially form into a larger pothole in the future. On a good day, one Dragon patching machine can repair up to 200 potholes.
The latest machine, which takes over from an on-loan vehicle, has been built to Oxfordshire's specification. This means that there are now two Oxfordshire-owned machines working full-time in the county on its rural roads. A third machine is shared with Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.
Perfect timing too – after all, winter is coming!