More than 40 residential road surface improvements complete
Work has almost finished to improve road conditions in more than 40 residential areas of Telford and Wrekin, with new surfacing.
The surface dressing has involved applying and rolling aggregate ‘chippings’ onto a bitumen binder. This seals the surface, improves surface texture and prolongs the life of the roads by many years. It’s an efficient and cost-effective way of preventing potholes, maintaining skid-resistance and waterproofing road surfaces.
Councillor Lee Carter (Labour) Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood Services, Regeneration and the High Street said: “While each piece of resurfacing work is in smaller, residential areas, the improvements the work will be bring will be noticeable in improving road surfaces. It's been an efficient programme, despite some of the weather conditions affecting work so well done to the team on this project.
“The work forms part of the council’s ambitious four-year investment programme to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and between 2020 and 2024 we will have ploughed more than £50m to keep neighbourhoods safe, clean and well connected.
The work started at the end of April at a cost of £640k. It forms a major part of the council’s annual road maintenance programme, and is being carried out alongside other preventative and reactive maintenance work. The final stages of repainting the lines is now being carried out.
Sites were identified as being in need of essential maintenance through combined local engineering judgment and asset management data. The information helped form a borough-wide programme of schemes, delivering improvements in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
Highways contractor Balfour Beatty have completed the work along with specialist sub-contractors RMS.
A full list of locations is available online
