Edinburgh's roads budget is set to be cut by £12 million to meet the soaring cost of repairs to the North Bridge.
It would be in addition to a further £12m that would need to be borrowed by the council to complete the project which has been beset with delays and revised cost estimates since commencing in 2018.
The city's transport leader admitted the city's roads were already underfunded and accepted that cutting the budget "will increase the rate of decline."
