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Britain’s deteriorating road infrastructure has forced manufacturers to spend more on logistics, as well as increasing difficulty around labour mobility and access to skills, Make UK has said.

The lobbying group said that over half of manufacturers (54%) believe that national road infrastructure has deteriorated over the last decade.

Its latest study found that manufacturers believe that successive governments have put too much emphasis on cost when valuing infrastructure projects, and not enough on their potential benefit.

Manufacturers in the north of England were particularly critical of the state of road infrastructure compared to other areas of the UK, with 68% of those in the north-west saying that infrastructure has deteriorated over the last decade.

Recent data from the AA found that the number of vehicles damaged by potholes reached a five-year high.

In November, the previous government announced that £8.3bn in redirected HS2 funds would be spent to try and remedy this issue, but...

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  • Roads are an "asset" which includes drainage pipes and rain water storage, vegetation, (grass, shrubs and trees), signage, in additional to the actual pavement structure.

    Here in the US the roads can be privately owned (tolls roads or gated communities) or public roads owned by a City, the County, the State or Federal governments, frequently all within the same geographical area.

    When a area is being developed for the first time the builder/construction company is responsible for land clearing, building the roads, drainage/sewage pipes, besides the actual buildings. At some time in the future ownership of  the new public roads are usually passed to city ownership.

    The city periodically issues road bonds (after obtaining approval using a city wide vote) to maintain/repair their roads.

    So if one lives on a public road in a city, that city is responsible for repair of (for example) pot holes. If the city fails to adequately repair the roads the next electron cycle usually results in some City members losing their seats.

    It seems to me that the basic problem in the UK is that people don't know who actually owns the road(s) with the pot holes.

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay 

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  • Roads are an "asset" which includes drainage pipes and rain water storage, vegetation, (grass, shrubs and trees), signage, in additional to the actual pavement structure.

    Here in the US the roads can be privately owned (tolls roads or gated communities) or public roads owned by a City, the County, the State or Federal governments, frequently all within the same geographical area.

    When a area is being developed for the first time the builder/construction company is responsible for land clearing, building the roads, drainage/sewage pipes, besides the actual buildings. At some time in the future ownership of  the new public roads are usually passed to city ownership.

    The city periodically issues road bonds (after obtaining approval using a city wide vote) to maintain/repair their roads.

    So if one lives on a public road in a city, that city is responsible for repair of (for example) pot holes. If the city fails to adequately repair the roads the next electron cycle usually results in some City members losing their seats.

    It seems to me that the basic problem in the UK is that people don't know who actually owns the road(s) with the pot holes.

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay 

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