Council gets extra road cash
Bath and North East Somerset Council is to receive an extra £1 million for essential road repairs, the Government has announced.
The cash is the district's share of a £215 million transport fund for highway maintenance.
It forms part of the additional £333 million earmarked for roads in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
The Government says this is on top of the £3 billion funding already allocated for highways maintenance up to 2015, although the Local Government Association point out this is £442 million less than councils would have received over the same period based on 2010/11 funding levels.
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From the additional money, B&NES will get £663,000 in the coming year and £353,000 in 2014/15.
The extra cash can be used for improvements such as road resurfacing, maintenance to bridges or repairing damage caused by severe weather.
However, given the maintenance backlog faced by many local authorities and funding cuts, critics point out it represents a fraction of the total amount needed.
Comments
by Mr_Nemo
Sunday, December 23 2012, 9:16PM
“""Not much point having bike stands if the roads are so bad you can't cycle safely."
But surely, if you can't use your cycle safely, then you will stay of fit and therefore will need somewhere to stand it?
The key words are "essential road repairs". The city needs those desperately, NOT endless tinkering with road junctions, pavements, signs, humps, bumps, lumps etc.....”
by wheelie_bin
Sunday, December 23 2012, 12:57PM
“Not much point having bike stands if the roads are so bad you can't cycle safely.”
by BV_BV
Sunday, December 23 2012, 10:28AM
“I must ask why my first comment attracted red arrows. What on earth did I say? Don't people want decent roads around them? My red arrow voters should be fracked as they are full of hot waste!”
by lamail
Saturday, December 22 2012, 9:59PM
“The council will spend it on roadsigns and bike stands”
by BrookWhelan
Thursday, December 20 2012, 10:50PM
“Great news - lots of roads need repairs in the area, and this money will make a big difference.”
by t1mmyb
Thursday, December 20 2012, 10:36PM
“If some decent money was spent on cycling facilities (clue: not *nearly* enough has been spent already), we wouldn't be having that other conversation about Air Quality Management Areas...”
by jezer
Thursday, December 20 2012, 4:00PM
“Nice one HenryCrun, although I suspect Malcome has had a change of heart. A couple of his recent posts have been verging on the reasonable. Of course, it may be just a touch of Christmas spirit. Expect to resume normal service in the New Year.”
by HenryCrun
Thursday, December 20 2012, 3:47PM
“Of course not, jezer. "Tinyminority...rantrant...politicalextremists...blusterbluster...alllabour'sfault...bunchoflycralouts...hangingstoogoodforthem...(disappearsupownjacksie)...passthepinkgindear".
(Thought I'd save 'im the bother).”
by mcupis
Thursday, December 20 2012, 3:33PM
“No Jezer. We've spent far too much money on both of you already.”
by jezer
Thursday, December 20 2012, 3:22PM
“So, can we expect improvements in cycling facilities? No, I thought not.”