Councils must be flexible on road spending, DfT chief warns

Dom Browne

22 July 2014

A Department for Transport (DfT) strategic roads chief has conceded the funding system for highways authorities is not 'optimum' and encouraged councils to be flexible in their approach to different finance streams to help utilise the money they receive.

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