THOUSANDS OF POT HOLES TO BE REPAIRED

COV GETS CASH TO MAKE ROADS SAFER THIS WINTER

MORE than 20,000 potholes will be repaired in Coventry after the city was awarded funding.

Department for Transport has given the West Midlands a pot of £43million this winter for road repairs, a lot of which will go on the thousands of potholes on our roads.

Coventry and Warwickshire has been awarded nearly £7million to repair the roads to keep motorists and cyclists safe.

However, Warwickshire will be getting four and a half times as much money as Coventry.

Following the £420million announced in the Budget, it brings the total funds for West Midlands roads for this year to more than £144 million.

Next year (2019-2020), the West Midlands will get £110million from the Local Highways Maintenance and Integrated Transport Block funds, which will go towards repairing roads and investing in small safety, bus priority or walking and cycling schemes.

The West Midlands has been awarded £43,523,000, but Coventry is set to get only £1,226,000 of that.

At a cost of £53 per pothole to fix, the £1.2million will fix tens of thousands of potholes.

When the Telegraph asked how many it will fix, Department for Transport said it should be around 24,000.

Coventry City Council has been asked by the Telegraph how many potholes there are in Coventry.

We also asked them if the £1.2million was what the council wanted, or if they needed more.

We are still waiting for a response.

Warwickshire is being awarded nearly five times as much money as Coventry. The pot for the county will be £5,741,000 - which could fill more than 100,000 potholes based on the cost of £53 per pothole.

The Telegraph has asked Warwickshire County Council specifically how many potholes the money will be able to fill up.

Again we have not received a comment as yet.

Roads Minister Jesse Noman said: “Potholes are a huge problem for all road users, and too often we see issues occurring at the same place time after time.

“That is why the Government is investing more in improving our roads than at any time before - £15 billion between 2015 and 2020 and a further £28.8 billion to 2025. Plus an immediate extra £420million for potholes and local road maintenance just this year.

“The West Midlands will be getting an extra £43million this winter to keep its roads in good condition.”