More than 130,000 potholes across 266 miles of road in Wales have
been fixed or prevented in the last six months.
Since April the Welsh Government has been working closely with
local councils to deliver on its commitment of ‘Fixing our
roads'.
The local government borrowing initiative has enabled local
councils to fix or prevent around 107,000 potholes across 216
miles of local roads in Wales. Whilst on the Strategic Road
Network (SRN) around 24,000 potholes have been fixed or prevented
on more than 50 miles of road in the same period, thanks to Welsh
Government funding.
To date 480 local resurfacing schemes and 20 trunk road
resurfacing schemes have been completed across the country with
more to come before the end of the financial year. Schemes such
as A548 Abergele to Llanfair Talhaiarn in Conwy and Station Road,
Rogiet to near Shakespeare Road, Caldicot in Monmouthshire are
already making a big difference in the local community.
Work is continuing with further SRN schemes such as the A487 in
Eglwyswrw and A40 Arnold's Hill in Pembrokeshire and A55 Dobbs
Hill to Ewloe in Flintshire.
Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales said:
“Fixing our roads is a priority for this government.
“We are only six months into this programme, but I am delighted
with the fantastic progress that's been made so far, and there's
a lot more to come.
“We are now seeing the results of the additional £25m investment
in our main roads, and the support for our local authorities to
fix local roads.
“This work is already making a real difference to communities
across Wales, addressing long-standing issues now, to make our
roads more resilient for the future.”
Notes to editors
- Official figures will be published on the Welsh Government
website from 09:30hrs: English / Welsh
- The published data is based on management information
provided to Welsh Government for operational purposes together
with modelled estimates.
- The local government borrowing initiative provides an extra
£10m of revenue funding to local councils to enable them to
unlock an additional £120m over two years of capital funding to
accelerate the process of fixing our local roads and pavements.
- In January, this year we announced an extra £25m to fix and
prevent potholes on the SRN, for those roads in most need of
repair. Since 2021 the Welsh Government has spent more than £81m
on resurfacing around 321km of roads on the trunk network across
Wales. Combined with the forecasted spend for 2025-26 this means
that by the end of this Senedd term £118m will have been spent to
repair more than 500km of road defects and potholes.
