County council to discuss £58m investment in Derbyshire’s roads
COUNTY councillors are to discuss the prospect of a £58m investment in Derbyshire’s roads and pavements at a meeting of the cabinet tomorrow.
The year of work, to be carried out from April, would include resurfacing and surface dressing roads and pavements, traffic safety schemes, draining improvements and maintenance to bridges and retaining walls.
Councillor Kewal Singh
Athwal, cabinet member for Highways Assets and Transport, said: “This huge investment in roads, footpaths and pavements across the county is the second year of a three-year £120m programme.
“More than 44% of the money next year will be spent on resurfacing or surface dressing 375 roads across the county.
“We’re also going to make improvements to pavements, drains and spend money on measures to prevent flooding.
“To help reduce accidents on the roads, money will also be spent on a variety of safety schemes which aim to reduce the numbers of people killed or seriously injured in accidents. Improvements will also be made to the cycle network.
“Much of this work will need us to close roads to make sure it can be done safely, and where possible we will work at off-peak times.
“I’d like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused to all those affected by these improvement works and thank everyone for their patience.”
Most of the £25.8m will be spent on roads with £3.6m set aside to improve pavements.
Street lighting and traffic management will see £2.7m and £2.8 million spent respectively, while drainage and flood management would see a £4.7m investment.
An investment of £3.1m would be made into sustainable transport, and road safety would see £1.8m spent.
Also among the plans would be a £100,000 spend on air quality.