'Cash would only repair 600 metres of roads'
A leading councillor has blasted cash allocated for fixing potholes in his borough - as compensation for the scrapping of the HS2 Manchester link - as ‘pitiful’. Trafford ’s Green party leader Coun Michael Welton said the £369,000 allocated would barely fix 600 metres of the authority’s roads.
“I believe this is the money we’ve got for fixing the roads that was supposed to be spent on HS2,” he said. “It’s not the council’s fault, but it seems like a pitiful amount which will enable only 600 metres of road to be fixed.”The report referred to a ‘programme of works’ for the borough’s roads detailing specifically where work would take place, but Coun Welton was told by the director of finance Graeme Bentley that this was not yet available.
“Councils cannot maintain the roads if the Department of Transport doesn’t give them enough money to do so. We call on the new Labour government to provide councils with adequate, consistent funding, so they can provide the basic services residents depend on.”
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