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>>>>>>> Contrary to popular mythology roads have been improved to allow
>>>>>>> faster
>>>>>>> speeds and railways are now carrying more people than ever
>>>>>>> before, despite significant reductions in track mileage.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3/4 or UK's local roads are deteriorating year on year. We are
>>>>>> £8.3 billon behind in road maintenance. By last year the plan was
>>>>>> to have halted the deterioration but it hasn't happened and by
>>>>>> 2010 we were
>>>>>> to have caught up and removed the backlog unfortunately the first
>>>>>> part was no where near achieved as about 50% of the money
>>>>>> allocated
>>>>>> for maintenance is being spent elsewhere on things like speed
>>>>>> cushions, bus lanes, and what's laughably called our education
>>>>>> system
>>>>>> by local authorities. It's about time that money allocated by the
>>>>>> national government for road maintenance is reserved only for use
>>>>>> in actually maintaining roads.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn't talking about maintenance, but then you were aware of that
>>>>> before your petulant little rant weren't you?.
>>>>
>>>> How can you make claims about "roads have been improved" when 3/4's
>>>> of them are so badly maintained they are deteriorating and there is
>>>> more than a six year backlog in fixing them.
>>>
>>> Because construction (i.e. provision of new roads, flyovers,
>>> underpasses etc) is different from maintaining them and keeping them
>>> in good order. Is that too difficult for you to understand?.
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>> As the general condition of 72% of roads is deteriorating (used for
>> more than 75% of commuting) then the tiny amount of road building is
>> hardly going to make for a general improvement. So if 72% of roads
>> are deteriorating what percentage are actually improving or new?
>> Quite clearly less than 30% and you some how expect that to offset
>> the deterioration of the other roads.
>
> Quite obviously the concept is too difficult for you.

The concept that a minority improvement out ways a majority decrease is
definitely something I can't agree with. We could build a nice 300 mile long
motorway in the Scottish highlands but as that's not part of the majority of
road users routes it isn't going to improve there commute what would improve
there commuting would be to fix the roads that are used on commutes. As the ICE
report makes it clear that more than 3/4s of commuting is done on the roads that
are under maintained then for the majority of people the commute is simply put
despite all your bleating like a well trained government sheep worse not better,
slower not quicker, more uncomfortable not more pleasant.