Pothole Britain.

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Post SHTF, there would be very little traffic to make pot holes worse. There would be very little fuel for you to use in a vehicle. Sooner the roads break down and nature takes them back, the better. Motorways and A roads would take decades to decay, most of these are ancient routes.

Before the Turnpikes were established in the UK and it was the responsibility of the parish to maintain roads, it was not uncommon for holes big enough to swallow wagons to be present were people had been digging clay for pots and bricks and the like.

Think of what can be harvested from the roads - different coloured reflectors, steel from barriers, gantries and the like, railings, mesh, ladders...