Cost of new roads would pay for maintenance backlog
March 25, 2006 11:36 AM
Alistair Carmichael, MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary
The Liberal Democrats have obtained Government figures which show how the cost of current national road schemes has escalated by £1.5bn, almost enough to pay for the entire road maintenance backlog of local roads.
Responding to the publication of the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) Survey 2006 which highlights a staggering shortfall of £1.6bn in local authority road structural maintenance budgets across the country, Alistair Carmichael MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, said:
"These figures will be alarming to all road users. Potholed roads are potentially lethal to cyclists, pedestrians and motorists.
"Yet at the same time as allowing the roads to go to pot we are sinking more and more money into new road building schemes.
"Rather than funding costly and often unnecessary road expansion the Government should come forward with proposals which demonstrate how they plan to tackle this maintenance backlog."
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