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  This is number 12 so we still have someway to go yet.
  
  Highway maintenance== The Proposal is=
  
  Reduce highway maintenance by £3million.
  
  We spend £33million on ensuring the hightway network is safe to use and our 8,500km of roads and 6,000km of pavements are properly maintained.
  
  This includes keeping roads open in winter,inspection and maintenance of roads pavements &bridges, traffic sighs, gully clearance and road safety.
  
  The KCC could save £3million by going for this proposal.
  
  For the proposal.
  
  (1) If KCC provides the salt and gritlocal residents could clear many of the minor roads and pavements themselves.
  
  (2) As long as it gets done we can wait an extra few days for routine repairs.
  
  (3)If we spent less on inspections and unnecessary road works/improvements,we could spend what we save here on routine repairs and maintence.
  
  Against the proposal.
  
  (1) The winter service across the County countering the effects of ice,frost and snow on the highway-would not be able to be maintained at the same level.
  
  (2) Service response speed to routine repairs (eg. potholes) is currently 28 days. Cutting the budget by £3millionwould increase the response rate further.
  
  (3)Some routine safety inspections of roads and pavements and the resulting maintenance works would not happen, or take longer to happen.
  
  Hope we gets lots of posts on this one.
  
  The next one will be Bus routes, this one will make you sit up and think to.

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