Investment programme to repair West Sussex roads and footways worth £19million on track

A £19million programme of improvements to West Sussex’s roads and footways is on track to be completed by April.
Stockbridge Road, Chichester after resurfacingStockbridge Road, Chichester after resurfacing
Stockbridge Road, Chichester after resurfacing

The works, which include extra investment from central government of around £9m, comprise of £8.89m for road resurfacing, £6.12m for road patching, £2m for signs and road line marking improvements, £0.52m for microasphalt treatment and £1.5m for footways.

Roger Elkins, West Sussex County Council’s cabinet member for highways and infrastructure, said: “Progress to date is encouraging and a tribute to the hard work of the highways team and our contractors. Subject to factors such as severe weather, we are on course to complete most, if not all, the improvements we hoped to achieve this financial year.”

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So far 17km of carriageways have been resurfaced, which is more than 50 per cent of this part of the programme complete, 55,731 square metres of road patching (85 per cent complete), 6.3km of road microasphalt treatment (complete for 2020/21), 7km of footway reconstruction (about 60 per cent complete), 15km of footway microasphalt treatment (complete for 2020/21) and 110km of the road network has been identified for work on marking and signs (around 90 per cent of road markings and 70 per cent of signs sites identified are complete).

WSCC says its financial plans, due to be signed off next week, include a £12m boost to the usual level of spending on highways over the next two financial years.