"One million square metres" worth of pot-hole and road repairs in the East Riding

A MAJOR ROAD SURFACE REPAIR and dressing programme will soon be completed on the East Riding’s roads after the worst winter in 30 years according to John Skidmore, the East Riding Council's head of Streetscene Services.

The programme started on 9 May and will be complete by the middle of this month. John Skidmore commented:

“In that time our highways teams will have laid in excess of one million square metres, which equates to an area the size of 220 football pitches. The work was earmarked to take a further few weeks, but the repair teams have got on so well with it that they should have completed the programme by 15 August."

The damage to the 3,500km highway network this past winter was so severe that many roads needed emergency repairs. The council applied for, and received additional government funding to enable the council’s highways engineers to carry out the surface dressing programme to repair damage and replace thousands of temporary pothole repairs.

Surface dressing is an important road maintenance process which has four main purposes: it seals the surface; it provides texture and skid resistance to an existing worn surface; it arrests disintegration; and, looks better than lots of patches.