It will take South Gloucestershire Council 742 years to repair its crumbling roads and potholes, government figures suggest. Department for Transport (DfT) data shows the local authority is even worse than Bristol, which was this month named and shamed as England’s pothole capital.
Yate Lib Dem town councillor Chris Willmore has crunched the numbers and worked out it will take about 10 lifetimes to fix the problems across the district. The authority’s Conservative leader Cllr Toby Savage admitted they had more work to do but the administration had committed an extra £1million in the budget, set in February, to improve the state of highways and pavements, which he said the Liberal Democrats refused to vote for.
Ms Willmore told South Gloucestershire Council cabinet: “You probably breathed a sigh of relief this month when Bristol was branded the worst authority in the country for pothole repair.
