August was a busy summer month for LCC’s Highways team. Over 6000 potholes repaired, hundreds more roads surface treatments happening and hundreds of other work schemes completed in Lincolnshire, too.
In what was a wet and largely soggy August, Lincolnshire County Council managed to keep up the pace of road improvements across the county with thousands of road and footpath improvements completed over a four-week period.
Over 6,000 (6,105) potholes were taken care of as part of the local highways authority’s ‘On the road in ’24’ commitment to deliver improvement works across the county.
It's not just potholes that got another huge raft of repairs either. 163 roads have also been surface-dressed, 28 roads resurfaced (nearly one road a day), 34 footpaths rebuilt (more than one a day), 58 footpaths resurfaced, and seven drainage schemes completed.
Elsewhere our crews have repaired 485 streetlights and tended to 347 call outs for tree or other vegetation problems on the highway.
Cllr Richard Davies, executive member for Highways said: “August is usually a quiet month, but this year we have really kept up the pace.
“We managed to keep crews and schemes going where we could, even in the wet weather, which has resulted in a huge uplift for the county's roads and footpaths – again.
“These positive works that we are delivering month-in, month-out for Lincolnshire are the absolute proof of our total continuing commitment to everyone who uses the road network.
“We made a pledge at the start of the year to keep pushing forward with road maintenance so that we can make that real-world difference to many people. This latest set of figures shows we are still doing that in a seriously big-scale way.
“We have more to do, we are well aware of that, and we will absolutely continue to push forward with delivering the best roads and paths that we can across the 5,500 miles of Lincolnshire road network.”
Breakdown of August:
- Potholes filled – 6,105
- Roads resurfaced – 28
- Road surface treatments - 163
- Footways rebuilt - 34
- Footway surface treatments – 58
- Drainage improvement schemes - 7
- Streetlights repaired - 485
- Tree/vegetation jobs - 347
If you need to report an issue with roads in your area, visit the Fix My Street website or app.
For live information on roadworks across Lincolnshire go to: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/roadworks.