Submission Documents: By Bailie Kyle Thornton:- "Council agrees that action is needed to invest in the repair and renewal of roads in Glasgow. Council believes that the current financial settlement from the Scottish Government makes it extremely difficult to meet the investment required to bring its roads up to standard and agrees that additional financial resources are required to meet this challenge. Recent weather has caused Glasgow's roads to deteriorate further increasing the scale of the challenge. It is important to keep our roads maintained and that this provides economic benefit to Glasgow as well as helping to keep our city's buses, cyclists, drivers and pedestrians on the move. Council notes that road damage is an issue across Scotland with 35% of Scotland's roads requiring repairs compared to 5% in England and that Scotland has a combined 153,310 potholes at a total depth of 6,354m. Council welcomes the recent "Save Our Roads" campaign launched by Jamie Greene MSP at Holyrood which argues for a national £100 million Pothole Action Fund over the next 5 years. Council is of the view that this fund is a pragmatic idea to allow local authorities to bid for additional funds for road repair and investment. Therefore, Council resolves to write to the Scottish Government's Finance Secretary to make clear the Council's support for a Pothole Action Fund and to urge him to introduce this as soon as possible." Help Icon

This is the list of documents available for the submission By Bailie Kyle Thornton:- "Council agrees that action is needed to invest in the repair and renewal of roads in Glasgow. Council believes that the current financial settlement from the Scottish Government makes it extremely difficult to meet the investment required to bring its roads up to standard and agrees that additional financial resources are required to meet this challenge. Recent weather has caused Glasgow's roads to deteriorate further increasing the scale of the challenge. It is important to keep our roads maintained and that this provides economic benefit to Glasgow as well as helping to keep our city's buses, cyclists, drivers and pedestrians on the move. Council notes that road damage is an issue across Scotland with 35% of Scotland's roads requiring repairs compared to 5% in England and that Scotland has a combined 153,310 potholes at a total depth of 6,354m. Council welcomes the recent "Save Our Roads" campaign launched by Jamie Greene MSP at Holyrood which argues for a national £100 million Pothole Action Fund over the next 5 years. Council is of the view that this fund is a pragmatic idea to allow local authorities to bid for additional funds for road repair and investment. Therefore, Council resolves to write to the Scottish Government's Finance Secretary to make clear the Council's support for a Pothole Action Fund and to urge him to introduce this as soon as possible." .

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Item Minute - 28 June 2018 Minute Public Open Document in PDF Format
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