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.
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.