July 26, 2024 4:00pm by David Farrar

Priority potholes

Last month the Government announced a near $4 billion boost to combat potholes on state highways and local roads over the next three years.

Today, the new pothole repair targets were announced as agreed between the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) and roading contractors.

The targets are for 95% of potholes on high volume, national, and arterial state highways and 85% of potholes on regional, primary collector, and secondary collector state highways be repaired within 24 hours of identification.

Nice to have a Government that wants to actually fix the roads, not just slow them down.