More of the money which road users pay in taxation should go only to those authorities providing a safe and well-maintained road network, according to a leading motoring organisation. The call has come from the AA Motoring Trust, which has criticised Britain’s roads and the fact that highway authorities are not properly accountable to road users with councillors elected for short terms making decisions about long term road safety.The Trust says the lack of accountability means hundreds of lives are lost annually and a backlog of billions in road repairs has been built up. It cited figures which showed that Britain’s A-road network has skid resistance standards so poor that one mile in every five fails initial safety checks. Minor roads, it claims, where no independent safety review is carried out, are worse.
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