Jack Semple ... on the poor state of local roads

Parliament's Transport Committee has launched an inquiry into the funding and governance of local roads in England. Both issues need urgent reform. These roads make up 95% of the UK network and are the haulage industry's main place of work, along with motorways and other national roads. But government, central and local, is failing to provide an acceptable standard of workplace. Increasingly unpleasant to drive on, many roads are damaging to vehicles, hugely costly in terms of congestion caused by endless road works, and unsafe, as the cycling lobby has highlighted