Liberal Democrat County Councillors have revealed that it would take over three quarters of a billion pounds to repair the county’s roads and footways to an “as new” standard and that at the current rate of spending, it would take the Conservative-run County Council almost 50 years to complete this work.

The fact that Surrey’s roads and footways are in such a dreadful condition is not news to residents who have to drive over many potholes every day.

That £754 million of spending is needed to bring them up to a decent standard is quite shocking, and only highlights the inadequacy of the County Council’s recently announced £5million of additional funding for road repairs.

We believe that the County Council needs to set out a far more ambitious plan to improve our roads and footways after decades of neglect and underfunding and we have called on the County Council to adopt a more proactive approach to repairing the roads and to invest now so as to save money on costly repairs and compensation later, and in doing so ensuring that we have a road network in Surrey of which our residents can be proud.