SOME of Liverpool’s most pot-holed roads are finally going to be repaired, at a cost of £180,000.
But council officials today said bringing the historic streets around Sefton Park up to a fully modern standard would cost more than £4m.
The roads, including Mossley Hill Drive, Croxteth Drive and Aigburth Drive, have been allowed to run into disrepair because they are unadopted, which means the council is not responsible for their upkeep.
But officials today said to bring them up to adoptable standard, they would need new drains, lighting, road surfaces, kerbs and footpaths.
They estimate the work could cost at least £3m-£4m because the roads are in a conservation area.
But as part of the Look of the City programme, devised to spruce up Liverpool before Capital of Culture next year, £180,000 has been set aside to carry out “interim treatment”.
A council report says: “At this time, there are unfortunately no funding sources that would assist the city in contributing to bring the roads across Sefton Park, that are part-owned by the city, to an adoptable standard, but efforts will continue to made to secure such funding.”
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Green Party councillor John Coyne who represents St Michael’s, described the council’s proposals as “a double-edged sword”.
He said: “It will make it a safer place to cycle and drive in the short term, but it will also make it a faster road surface and more dangerous.
“I would suggest that residents who live in Aigburth Drive get together with highways officers and find a way of using the money to narrow the road.
“If the road is narrower, then there is less of it to resurface, and it will bring speed down and reduce the flow of traffic, which is better.
“The issue is not just to throw money at it and deal with the surface of the carriageway. We need to change the way it is used.”
michellefiddler@liverpoolecho.co.uk
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