Potholes are the number one priority for Lancashire residents, according to county councillors.
That is the message elected representatives say they are getting whenever they engage with locals. The revelation came at a meeting of Lancashire County Council’s scrutiny management board during a discussion about how the authority should spend the cash being sent its way from the savings made by scrapping the northern leg of the HS2 railway line to Manchester.
Separately, Lancashire as a whole is due to receive the largest share across the North and Midlands from the government’s Local Transport Fund - which also comes under the Network North umbrella. The county council has been told it will be given £494m between next year and 2032, with Blackpool getting £120.8m and Blackburn £116.9m. The LTF is intended for major highways and transport schemes such as building new roads or upgrading railway stations, rather than repairing potholes.
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