Bristol’s crumbling road network has received a £1million boost to fix potholes. City council leaders are set to rubber-stamp spending the additional money from Whitehall that will focus on junctions and roundabouts that need urgent repairs.
It comes just weeks after Bristol was named the worst in the country for potholes. The extra money is part of a £200million increase in the Government’s national Potholes Fund announced in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget last month.
City council opposition Conservative group leader Cllr Mark Weston (Henbury & Brentry) said: “News of these extra resources is particularly welcome at this time, given the very poor state of many of our roads. This problem has been growing worse and even led to one insurance survey recently to name Bristol as the Pothole Capital of England.
