£900,000 boost for road repairs

WARRINGTON is to receive a boost of almost £900,000 from the Department for Transport towards the cost of essential maintenance and repair works on the borough’s roads.
The funding will be made available over the next two years.
Councils in the North West have secured £28.2 million from the £333 million fund announced in the Chancellor’s autumn statement to spend on the road network.
The money will be used to make improvements such as road resurfacing, maintenance to bridges or repairing damage to highway infrastructure.
Cllr Linda Dirir (pictured), the borough council executive member for transport and environment, said: “This is great news for our motorists and will go towards addressing some of the issues arising from the last two severe winters and the recent episodes of flooding which have exacerbated the deterioration of the local network.”
The council’s highways team carries out annual road surveys to assess and rank which roads need repairs in order of priority. Roads which meet this criteria are added to the annual programme of works.
The extra funding means an additional 10 or 12 schemes can be tackled as a matter of urgency.