"Brimstone" > wrote in message
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> David Taylor wrote:
>> Brimstone > wrote on Tue, 10 May 2005 15:58:21
>> GMT:
>>> David Taylor wrote:
>>>> Brimstone > wrote on Tue, 10 May 2005 14:20:21
>>>> GMT:
>>>>> Depresion wrote:
>>>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> So? He wasn't talking about improvements to the road system, but
>>>> that didn't stop you.
>>>
>>> My comment referred to the fact that commuting has been made easier.
>>
>> Don't you think that roads in poor condition would make
>> commuting harder? There's no point building a network of
>> roads in every conceivable direction if they are badly maintained.
>>
>>>> So you actually have no argument against the fact that British roads
>>>> are horrible unmaintained?
>>>
>>> On the contrary UK roads are mostly very well maintained. As with any
>>> subject there are always the odd exceptions. Perhaps you can cite
>>> some examples of what you consider to be "horrible unmaintained"
>>> roads?
>>
>> Horribly unmaintained roads are all around. There was a study of
>> the condition of roads released not so long ago. It did not
>> praise the road network quite as much as you are...
>
> I'm not praising the standard of maintenance, merely challenging some
> people's blind assumption that all roads are badly maintained. I'm willing
> to accept that many local authorities "could do better", but that applies to
> all employees everywhere.

No one said all roads are badly maintained the ICE said 72% or roads (that form
more than 75% of commutes) aren't being adequately maintained.