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City spends extra £1million on repairing damaged roads

A series of road resurfacing projects are getting under way across Aberdeen as the council spends an extra £1million on fixing the city streets.

The money is being used to carry out repair work in mostly residential areas. It will be split between: footways (£65,000); replacing street lanterns (£50,000); road lining (£20,000); gully clearing (£100,000); patching (£25,000); permanent patching (£60,000); joint sealing to preserve the road surface (£20,000); central reserve chipping (£60,000); city centre repairs (£50,000); and resurfacing (£550,000).

Work funded from the capital budget is being carried out on many of the city’s strategic routes and this is likely to continue for many years to come, but less has been spent on roads which are less strategically important roads, which are now in real need of attention.

Resurfacing work has already been carried out on Summerhill Drive, Harlaw Road, and Viewfield Road.

Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure Convener Kate Dean said: “Pot holes and damaged road surfaces are a source of irritation for many in Aberdeen, but they are a fact of life in a city which attracts some of the harshest winter weather conditions in the UK.

“This extra £1million will go a considerable way to improving smaller streets in less-heavily trafficked areas.”

Vice convener John Corall added: “This money has been ring-fenced to spend on the city's roads to help alleviate the ravages of the previous two winters that wreaked so much destruction throughout the 950 km infrastructure.

“Officers have rightly in my opinion spread the repairs throughout the city so that as many areas as possible benefit. Repairs go from individual potholes to the resurfacing of large areas and will be welcomed by all road users.”

The next phase of work is due to being in February, when the stretch of the C89C Kingswells to Newhills road, between Kingswells Crescent and the C88C Newhills Road will be resurfaced.

Kirk Terrace, Hilltop Avenue and Auchinleck Road are next on the list, with resurfacing work due to be carried out in late February.

In the week beginning 5 March, work is due to begin on Cairnwell Drive, Barron Street and Portal Crescent, followed by Crimon Place, St Swithin Street and Cairnfield Place the following week.

If the cost of these works, which are weather dependent, is lower than budgeted for, other city streets may also be repaired.

Corroded street lighting columns on Kirk Brae are scheduled to be replaced in mid-February and footway renewal works on Gray Street are being carried out now.

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