
"Herts' Roads are in Good Shape!" claim the Tories - "Oh no they're not!" say the Liberal Democrats.
Herts Lib Dems have hit out at Tory County Council claims that our roads are in "Good Shape". In March this year, the Lib Dems protested as over 60 road resurfacing reconstruction schemes were cut from works due by the County Council. The Conservative administration cut road improvement schemes (mainly on secondary side roads across the county) and reduced the budget for such schemes by £2m - next year and in each of the following three years. This cut £8m in total from the planned £37m spend up to 2025 - a cut of 22%. Now council officers have released figures showing that the number of side roads in Hertfordshire that need of repair has nearly doubled since last year - increasing from 7% to 12%.