Delays over aid for drought-hit roads leaves managers high and dry

11 January 2007
 
Local highways authorities with drought-damaged roads from the latest hot, dry summer are still waiting to hear on the outcome of their bids for emergency funding.
Essex’s bid for £8M and Oxfordshire’s for £4M were among the requests for additional funding to cover the exceptional costs of repairing cracked-up and deformed carriageways, which were estimated to reach £20M across England. At some sites, skid resistance has been left dangerously low.
Department for Transport officials have, in recent weeks, been focusing on assessing local transport plans, but are now understood to be turning their attention to the issue of heat damage.
Tony Ciaburro, Essex’s head of highways and transportation, said that the problem happened so frequently now ‘we can almost anticipate it’, and called for a contingency to be made available each year.

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