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Despite claims of "austerity", this mad Government is still spending our money like a drunken sailor. How else could some lunatics authorise the expenditure of millions of pounds on resurfacing the entire pavement from Gallery Road to Lordship Lane on the South Circular? Apart from a small section by DC, I doubt that a couple of dozen pedestrians use this in a day. What hope is there of a return to solvency at any time in the next hundred years when our grand children will still be paying for this ongoing binge? The Greatest Fun in all the world, beats everything, seems to be spending other people's money!

I think you'll find it's the council in charge of road surfacing, not central government. Maybe contact your local ward councillor? How do you know it's costing millions of pounds out of interest? And are you talking about every road or just some? Is it entire resurfacing or pothole covering? So many questions.... So many....


Louisa.

Oh, that's nothing in comparison to the ?10,000 being spent by one of our ED concillor's on a feasibility study on Melbourne Grove ED. At least there is a benefit at the end of the works the OP talks of....ah, to get fresh new pavements for your money, now that would be good.

The South Circular is a trunk road and hence maintained by Central Government. The monstrous waste of money outside Alleyn's is the responsibility of Southwark. Lunatics there spend their entire working lives dreaming up daft road improvements to use up their bloated budget at our cost.

Any fool can judge that the renewal of about a mile of South Circular pavements runs into millions. 'Nuff said.

LB of Richmond FoI query response, March 2012: Average costs of relaying / replacing pavement: ?15 / ?23 per square metre. http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/council_government_and_democracy/data_protection_and_freedom_of_information/freedom_of_information/foi_log/foi_log_search/foi_case_details.htm?id=12786

I suppose a long stretch might make for some economy of scale.

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