Road surface defects give Barnsley residents the hump

10 April 2008
 
As many as 38 roads may need to be dug up and re-laid across residential estates in Barnsley, because the material that has been used in the sub-base reacts with moisture, causing ripples and humps in the surface.

The steel slag used by engineers to build the roads in the late 1980s and early 1990s is expanding when wet, causing the surface to mutate. Work to fix the problem will cost around £6.2M, but £3.6M of those works will be on the A628 principal road which, it is hoped, could be paid for through the Regional Transport Board with an exceptional maintenance bid.

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council says it is carrying out work to fix the problem on a worst-first basis, and is also testing materials to see if expansion is still taking place.

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