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Buckinghamshire County Council is delighted to have received a considerable increase in capital grant funding allocated by government from around £5 million to £16.8 million for both highway maintenance and transport improvements for 2011/12.
Of this total Transport for Buckinghamshire plan to spend around £14.2 million on highway maintenance and £2.6 million on integrated transport improvements. Furthermore, the County Council has re-profiled its capital programme, allowing a further £2 million to be brought forward from 12/13 to 11/12. The level of investment in recent years has not kept up with the deterioration of the roads because of the damage caused over recent severe winters therefore the majority of this very welcome additional funding will be spent on necessary repairs to roads and pavements across the county.
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Of the £14.2 million highway maintenance budget, £11.7 will be spent on road resurfacing and the rest on bridge, street lighting and drainage repairs.
Work will include a programme of re-surfacing and plane and patch on the more widely used but damaged roads along with treatments to make the roads more resilient through the winter. The emphasis of the annual programme being on the right treatment in the right place at the right time. A list of proposed repair sites has been drawn up based on road condition information which take place on a rotational basis, inspections by our engineers, road safety data and additional data that we hold on the number of potholes repairs we have made.
Road repairs inevitably cause some hold ups to the travelling public if traffic management is required but we also show where we are working on our Service Information Centre to inform where we are working each day. We send out regular tweets via Twitter to those who follow us to ensure we do all that we can to minimise any disruption. To follow us on Twitter add us
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You can report potholes by calling 0845 2302882 or online
Find out where we are working today fixing potholes and other minor road works