Secretive council mandarins are refusing to reveal how much it will cost to repair Renfrewshire’s crumbling road network.
Almost all councils in Scotland admitted how much their repair bill will be, a total of £1.7 billion.
Now Scottish Labour Councillor Alison Ann-Dowling has called on the SNP run Renfrewshire Council to come clean.
Renfrewshire Council refused a Freedom of Information request from Scottish Labour.
Cllr Alison Ann-Dowling, who represents Houston, Crosslee and Linwood and her colleague Councillor Colin McCulloch for Bridge of Weir, Bishopton and Langbank recently passed a motion at Renfrewshire Council calling for a fresh strategy to improve the state of local roads and pavements.
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Councillor Ann-Dowling said: “Many people know Renfrewshire’s roads are in a terrible state after years of SNP neglect.
“But it is shocking the Council have failed to publish the true extent of their failure.
“It’s not acceptable for people not to know how much is needed to repair the roads - the SNP administration should come clean and tell us what the road repair backlog is.
“Either the SNP won’t tell people how badly they have managed our roads or they simply don’t know.
“Which is it?”
The councillor is calling for a new strategy for Renfrewshire’s roads and more cash to go into proper re-surfacing rather than pothole repair.
East Renfrewshire, which has a much smaller road network, has £25 million of repairs outstanding.
Renfrewshire Council has been asked to comment.
Here are the figures from the authorities that did come clean:
Falkirk £42,337,000
West Lothian £31,067,000
Shetland Islands £33,400,000
North Ayrshire £34,807,000
Midlothian £19,500,000
Scottish Borders £97,280,000
Inverclyde £15,300,000
Highland £194,827,000
West Dunbartonshire No Information
Dundee £22,286,000
Western Isles £36,000,000
East Ayrshire £55,262,000
South Lanarkshire £90,420,000
Aberdeenshire £99,228,000
Glasgow £96,000,000
Angus £55,454,000
North Lanarkshire £62,000,000
City of Edinburgh £77,346,000
Stirling No Information
East Lothian No Information
Dumfries & Galloway £217,320,000
Moray £40,706,000
Fife £77,600,000
Perth &Kinross £88,750,000
East Renfrewshire £25,302,000
Orkney £427,000
Renfrewshire No Information
East Dunbartonshire No Information
South Ayrshire £46,441,000
Argyll & Bute £112,251,000
Clackmannanshire £11,947,000
Aberdeen City No Information
Total £1,683,258,000
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