Essex Roads are better than this time last year according to new

Statistics just published show that Essex roads have 12 per cent fewer potholes than the same time last year, despite an increase in the last three months caused by winter conditions. The total number of potholes and other defects at the end of the 2015/16 financial year on Essex roads stood at 5,024, down from 5,694 last year. The latest statistics for the three months to 31 March, which includes most of the winter, show that the numbers of defects increased on Priority 1 routes from 76 to...