Pothole blitz in Manchester
Council pumps millions into road repairs
Works about to get underway to repair over 14 thousand potholes across Manchester.
It's part of the Council's £100m investment scheme to improve the region's roads and pavements
This phase - part of the Minor Highways Maintenance programme - will focus on repairing pot holes (Small Patch repairs) on roads and pavements in all 32 of the city’s wards.
The £4m programme will see 14,200 potholes repaired - roughly 29,000sqm of highway - through to spring 2019.
Already this year we have repaired 5,400sqm of highway across the city.
The repair work will be concentrated in different areas of the city at different times, to minimise disruption to residents and motorists.
This phase of work - which has now started in the Moston Ward - follows almost a year of wide scale and on-going highway maintenance works.
The works will consist of removing the existing pothole, carrying out preparatory works, before laying a new permanent surface material.
As the programme nears final completion in the Moston ward, additional repair teams will then move their focus to the Rusholme, Piccadilly, Higher Blackley and Sharston initially before moving across the city.
The City Council’s £100m highways improvement programme details different levels of repair work depending on the road’s requirement. In some cases roads will be resurfaced completely, while other areas will see the existing road surface treated with targeted repairs.
Cllr Angeliki Stogia, Manchester City Council’s Executive Member for Environment, Planning and Transport, said: “High quality roads are one of our residents’ top priorities and we are working hard to ensure our £100m investment is targeted properly to improve the highways.
“This next phase will focus on the more minor potholes across the city - and although smaller, no less important to get right. This a huge project and one that is vital to keep Manchester moving.