Road conditions in England to March 2022
Road condition statistics on local authority roads and Highways England managed roads in England.
Applies to England
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Information on the condition of roads in England, as well as other aspects of highways maintenance in the year ending March 2022.
The data comes from multiple sources including National Highways (formerly Highways England) and local authorities. Some data from local authorities form part of the Single Data List, making the provision of data a mandatory requirement.
In the period ending March 2022, local authorities in England reported that:
- 4% of their ‘A’ road network
- 6% of their ‘B’ and ‘C’ road network
- 15% of their unclassified road network
were categorised as red (should have been considered for maintenance).
Of the roads managed by National Highways:
- 4% of motorways
- 7% of ‘A’ roads
should have been considered for maintenance in period ending March 2022.
Local authorities continue to provide data on a voluntary basis for their amber and green roads with data included for the financial year ending 2022. This information was published for ‘A’ roads for the first time in the 2019 release, this has since been expanded to include data for ‘B’ and ‘C’ roads.
The statistical release does not present maintenance expenditure statistics for 2021 to 2022. This is because the source data for local roads had not been published at the point of production of this release. We are planning to publish an update of maintenance expenditure information alongside Transport Statistics Great Britain 2022.
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