Pothole allocation money could go to those failing to maintain roads

01 April 2011

Changes to the way this year's emergency potholes allocation budget of £200m has been distributed may reward local authorities failing to maintain the roads, while not giving enough incentive to those efficiently dealing with the problem, local authority engineers have warned.

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