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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jasper Lindell

State of Canberra's roads has been obscured under new fix strategy: audit

Longer stretches of roads are being resurfaced each year in the ACT since a $39.5 million funding injection, but the work has focused on a cheaper process rather than the preferred, longer-lasting asphalt technique, an audit has said.

Steam raises up from freshly laid bitumen as Roads ACT workers reseal Currong Street in Campbell in the rain in 2012. Picture by Jeffrey Chan

The ACT Audit Office also said the removal of a public road condition score meant Roads ACT could not guarantee maintenance was keeping up with the condition of the capital's 3134-kilometre road network.

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