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An extra £678,000 has been allocated to Reading Borough Council to spend on essential road maintenance
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Extra £700,000 for road maintenance

January 08, 2013

An extra £678,000 has been allocated to Reading Borough Council to spend on essential road maintenance.

The money, part of a £333 million fund announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, is to be spent over two years.

The Department for Transport funding could be used for road resurfacing, bridge maintenance or repairing damage to roads caused by severe weather, such as flooding.

Reading will have £440,000 to spend in 2013/14 and £238,000 in 2014/15 on top of the money the government is already providing for highways maintenance between 2011 and 2015.

Councillor Tony Page, Reading’s transport lead, said extra funding will be used in addition to the council’s annual resurfacing programme, adding: “It’s obviously welcome and we will use it to good purpose.”

West Berkshire Council will receive an extra £920,000 and Wokingham Borough Council an extra £703,000.

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“It’s obviously welcome and we will use it to good purpose.”

Like wallpapering over the cracks in the finance, Tony?

Spiddly, Reading
08/01/2013 at 14:05

So thats some of the 1 million pound awarded to whitley from the government syphoned off then. Oh well going to a good cause. Never ceases to amaze me how councils can manipulate money round the system like this. Then claim povety and major cuts from government.

bahumbug, Reading
08/01/2013 at 11:37

maybe they could spend a couple of hundred removing the stupid lights at the merry maidens and put in two roundabouts. I think that would work better.

parlovero, Earley
08/01/2013 at 11:09

Hmm lets see if we see any difference.... Does it really cost that much to fill in the pot holes? It probably means they will invest in another couple of traffic cameras, hence doubling revenue within a couple of years.