Councils in Scotland say lack of funding means roads that should be resurfaced every ten to twenty years are waiting an average of eighty-one years to be dealt with. The figure was given by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in support of claims made in the Scottish Parliament about the state of the country’s roads.The Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland and the Automobile Association had both claimed that a lack of funding for on-going maintenance had resulted in a need for major capital investment. Backing that view COSLA said councils shared the frustration of the general public and the motorists on the issue. Councils, it said, had struggled for too long to try to maintain the 50,000 kilometres of roads for which they were responsible.
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