LABOUR is promising to fix the pothole crisis with a record £7.3billion.
Councils will have access to the fund to mend roads most in need.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: “We promised to fix an extra million potholes a year by the end of this Parliament — we’re doing exactly that by doubling funding.”
President of the AA Edmund King said it should help “smooth out the road ahead”.
Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden said: “This is smoke and mirrors from a Labour Government who have declared war on motorists by slashing new road projects, putting 5p on a litre of diesel and petrol and introducing a pay-per-mile tax for drivers on top.”
Earlier this month we revealed how residents complaining their potholed road had not been resurfaced in four decades were told the average wait is 103 years.
They asked if the county council could repair the cul-de-sac because it had not been resurfaced since 1983.
But they were stunned to be informed that — according to the latest Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey — the average repair cycle is more than a century.
Homeowner Ian Bowyer, 66, branded the situation in Banbury, Oxon, ridiculous.
He said: “We’ve lived on this road for 42 years. It hasn’t had a full resurface.
“It keeps getting patched up but when you get the frost, it comes up again.
“A wait of 103 years is unheard of.”
