Road resurfacing, Amey & Streets Ahead

[Planner1 438]

Yes they are, I regularly drive around Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and every city is exactly the same.

 

Chronic under investment over the last 30 years, but also 5 times more vehicles using the roads.

 

The historic under investment is a national problem, as the money which local authorities use for road maintenace is given to them by the government.

 

See: http://www.ciht.org.uk/en/media-centre/news/index.cfm/roads-survey-confirms-impact-of-under-investment

 

According to that survey, nationally, the roads need £12bn of work to bring them up to standard and the problem grows year on year as the government doesn't give Councils enough money for this aactivity.

[Alcoblog 10]

The historic under investment is a national problem, as the money which local authorities use for road maintenace is given to them by the government.

 

See: http://www.ciht.org.uk/en/media-centre/news/index.cfm/roads-survey-confirms-impact-of-under-investment

 

According to that survey, nationally, the roads need £12bn of work to bring them up to standard and the problem grows year on year as the government doesn't give Councils enough money for this aactivity.

 

Hardly surprising when it takes the best part of eighteen months, start to finish, to rebuild a 97/98 bus stop.

[JFKvsNixon 11]

Hardly surprising when it takes the best part of eighteen months, start to finish, to rebuild a 97/98 bus stop.

 

Judging by this thread, private industry doesn't seem to be doing much better with the roads do they?

[Orzel 10]

Judging by this thread, private industry doesn't seem to be doing much better with the roads do they?

 

Maybe the key are intermediaries.

We give our money to central govt, they give it out to council and council orders works.

We finance it but have no control over it. And those who have are in public, not private sector.

[max 13]

Maybe the key are intermediaries.

We give our money to central govt, they give it out to council and council orders works.

We finance it but have no control over it. And those who have are in public, not private sector.

 

Once you hand anything over to the private sector you lose all control. Look at the mess the bus companies are making of the new timetabling.

[Cyclone 10]

The bus timetables have been private for what, 25 years?

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

The question has to be asked...and probably has been....but how/why did the Sheffield roads end up in such a state in the first place?

Lack of routine maintenance; reduced budgets; quick and inadequate rectification by statutory undertakings after excavations.

[taxman 12]

The bus timetables have been private for what, 25 years?

 

When fares were 2p

[Dan_Ashcroft 10]

The question has to be asked...and probably has been....but how/why did the Sheffield roads end up in such a state in the first place?

 

I had the misfortune to visit the city recently, and on leaving the M1 ....words can't describe ....the roads are just a patchwork quilt of badly infilled ..holes!

 

Other cities are not like that.

 

50 years of red Sheffield wasting transport budget on subsidising bus operators, instead of investing in infrastructure

 

I love the 'welcome to Sheffield' jolt as soon as you cross the border from Derbyshire

[Allen 38]

Yes they are, I regularly drive around Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and every city is exactly the same.

 

Chronic under investment over the last 30 years, but also 5 times more vehicles using the roads.

 

It's not that long ago (five years) that my job took me to all those cities regularly. They certainly were not as bad a Sheffield is now!

 

Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, has far better roads than Sheffield and certainly more traffic.

[Orzel 10]

Buses may be private but...

50 years of red Sheffield wasting transport budget on subsidising bus operators,

oh wait, subsidising and council again

And it's not working just like road maintenance.

[Cyclone 10]

When fares were 2p

 

That would be more like 30 years ago.

They were 10p for children by 25 years ago.