Highways and Engineering Consultation Presentation

1. Highways and Engineering Consultation Presentation

2. Context • Huge national public deficit - £160 billion • Massive reductions in public spending • The Council must achieve savings of 10% or £15 million p.a. for 2011/12 • Reductions in capital spending and grants • National spending review in October

3. Highways & Engineering Review • Reduction in funding: • £2.523m reduction revenue funding • £4.120m reduction in capital funding • £0.336m reduction in income • £3.500m end of Transport Infrastructure Fund • Proposals are currently out for consultation with staff, Trade Unions and service users • The final report will be shared with the Executive Member in November • Implementation from February 2011

4. The New Way of Working • With reduced resources, we must refocus priorities to manage and understand the impact on service users. We therefore need to: • Work smarter to provide new levels of inspections and cyclical maintenance to ensure we meet our duty of care • Target our resources on carrying out reactive maintenance rather than planned maintenance • Minimise the depreciation of the assets by targeting resources where they are most effective

5. Areas affected • There will be a reduction in works programmes and staffing levels in the following areas: • Management, administration and supervision • Street lighting • General highway maintenance • Highway and footway reconstruction programmes • Urgent repairs • Bridges and structures • Traffic management • Highway drainage • Asset management

6. What does this mean for Customers? • Defects and customer reports will take longer to be inspected / investigated • Highway and street lighting defects will take longer to be repaired • Gullies will be cleaned less frequently • There will be fewer highway improvement schemes: • Traffic management, safety and capacity improvements • Footway and carriageway resurfacing However, revised timescales do not contravene any statutory duties, recommendations or codes of practice

7. Proposed Levels of Service

8. Proposed Levels of Service

9. Proposed Levels of Service

10. Have Your Say… • You can participate in consultation by: • Submitting the online survey at www.bolton.gov.uk/highways • Completing a paper survey (available upon request by phoning (01204) 331075) • Emailing highwaysandengineeringreview@bolton.gov.uk • Consultation ends on 15th October 2010 • Comments and suggestions will inform the final report to the Executive Member in November • The final outcome will be shared in late November