£10.5bn bill to repair Britain’s potholed roads

Councils in Yorkshire need more than £95m each to patch up the region’s pothole-riddled roads, which motorists have rated as the worst in the country.

By The Newsroom

Published 14th Mar 2013, 08:02 BST

Councils need as much as £10.5billion to bring Britain's 'crumbling roads' back to a good condition

The estimated cost of bringing the county’s roads back into a reasonable condition includes an average bill of around £24m per local authority to repair last year’s flood damage, the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) found.

It will still take around 11 years for councils to clear their highways maintenance backlog and the AIA said England and Wales faced “a crumbling road crisis” with £10.5bn or repairs needed.

The figures were released as a third of AA members rated the surface condition of local roads as poor, very poor or terrible, with the lowest ratings in Yorkshire and Scotland.