Fife Conservatives have highlighted the need to maintain spending on Fife’s roads, ahead of the Council Budget in February.
Inverkeithing & Dalgety Bay Councillor Dave Dempsey said “In recent years, the Conservative Group on Fife Council has successfully argued for extra spending on roads. Unfortunately, each year’s uplift has been a one-off, so it’s not baked into the base figure for the following year. Figures from the Council’s transportation Service show that the base figure isn’t enough to keep the roads in their present state, let alone improve them.
Complaints about roads and pavements fill my inbox, alongside requests for crossings, yellow lines and all manner of other schemes. Almost everyone in Fife interacts with roads day and daily. It’s imperative that the Budget passed next February takes account of that. And that will depend on the Scottish Government properly and flexibly funding Councils from the extra £1.5bn it will have at its disposal.
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Note : Photo shows Cllr Dempsey at the site of resurfacing work on Moray Way, Dalgety Bay which residents welcomed but which Fife Council hadn’t been minded to prioritise.