LISTEN: More should be spent on Dundee's 'pothole problem' says city councillor
Fraser Macpherson thinks Dundee should follow Glasgow's example of doubling investment in the city's roads and walkways.
A Dundee City Councillor has called on the local authority to address the road conditions across the city.
Fraser Macpherson thinks Dundee should follow Glasgow's example of doubling investment in the city's roads and walkways with a view to tackling poor pavements and road conditions.
He said: "Locally I get many requests from constituents for the council to tackle potholes on local roads.
"The council's Roads Maintenance Partnership does a good job with the funding available to it, but not enough priority is being given to this important issue in terms of budgetary provision".
Councillor Macpherson wants to see a further £87,165 spent repairing potholes around Dundee, after the SNP administration cut the roads budget by more than £431,000 this year.
Councillor Willie Sawers depute convener of the council's policy and resources committee said: "It is easy to pick one important issue and isolate it by calling for additional resources to be invested.
"However in this case more money has been put into the city's road network during 2015/16 as part of the Annual Roads Maintenance Programme with prioritised repairs/improvements being made at more than 80 different locations.
"It is the difficult task of the administration and council officers to look across the whole range of vital services the council provides, from schooling to protecting older people and from reducing the attainment gap to creating a more equal Dundee.
"We are currently in detailed discussions about the 2017/18 budget and balancing all of those important services in line with the needs and desires of communities across the city before the budget is set in February."