Herts County Council Admit Yet MORE Highways Backlogs and Problems
Over 500 local people in Hertfordshire are waiting to hear about their dropped kerb crossover applications, because Herts County Council decided to stop processing applications in the run-up to the new Highways contract from the 1st October. Since then Ringway, the new contractor, has not done the work either.
The new Ringway contract already has a backlog of work and admit that they may take till June to get all the outstanding highways repairs done.
Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Central Watford and Oxhey, Leader of the Opposition)was appalled to hear of yet more delays and commented, "Yet again, it's a tale of delays and backlog - while the residents, dismissed by the county council as mere 'customers', lose out. When are the Conservatives at county hall going to get their act together over the highways farce they have generated?
"The Council are now admitting that it will take 20 weeks, in other words five months, for these people to go through the process and get their crossovers. No-one would accept this from a private workman coming to do to repairs to their property! Yet again Herts County Council are failing local people by not providing the services that they are meant to.
"The Liberal Democrats are adding this to our Highways list along with broken streetlights, potholes, cracked pavements and so much more. The list goes on and on but we shall ensure that the conservative councillors running the Highways department at County Hall are held to account and made to do better."
Liberal Democrat County Councillor for Tring & The Villages, Nick Hollinghurst said "This is a countywide problem and Tring is suffering as much as anywhere else. I am continually receiving complaints from Local people about crossover delays and highway repairs not done."
Note. The picture does not illustrate equipment actually used by Ringway. It is for illustrative purposes only as a metaphor for the slowness of the company in dealing with our many highway faults