Potholes & Highway Budgets

[Mups]

Our local council have decided to renew the contract with the same firm who have been mending potholes.
They are keeping them on until, at least 2030.

They are said to have realised that to bring this county's roads up to a decent standard (huh  ),  would cost close to  £380m.    This year's highway budget is  £18m!!

It doesn't take much working out to see things aren't going to improve over the next year, does it.

Is it much the same where you live, too?

[Ashy]

We had contractors round laying a few patches over the last month. Only the worst parts where the tarmac was missing. Where it's only broken up they didn't repair it. That was the first repair in years, whereas during the alleged pandemic they had a gang of men out laying a little garden in at a road junction - for no good reason that I could work out - that must have cost over a million pounds, that has since been covered in old leaves and weeds. The same council has also allowed weeds to grow out of the pavements all over the place.

[klondike]

Maybe they got rewilding grant