The road maintenance crisis in the United Kingdom and the United States is deepening amid estimates that it will take millions of dollars to stop highway infrastructure from crumbling, including falling prey to potholes.
A recent report by the BBC in the UK said that at least one municipal council, the city of Leeds, is facing a bill of nearly US$153 million to patch up its potholed roads.
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UK local authorities and other organisations must be “bold and brave” in their structuring of repair and maintenance works, delegates at a key road engineering conference in Birmingham, central England were told. Speaking at the Developments in Pavement Assessment (DIPA 2012) event Les Hawker, highways manager at Transport for London (TfL), said: “There is no extra money and only 20% of the [Government budget] cuts have taken place so far. Over the next five years the other 80% of cuts will come through. Or
