The biggest surfacing project ever undertaken by Lincolnshire County Council is underway and will see a significant makeover for 177 miles of the county’s roads. The huge-scale surface dressing scheme will be carried out at over 250 different sites with the addition of 25,000 tonnes of material and with the provision of thousands of working hours.

The scheme got underway in mid-June and is planned to be completed during the first half of August, weather permitting. Around 9,000 tonnes of recycled stone chips will be put back into the summer scheme to keep costs down.

Cllr Michael Cheyne, executive member for highways, said:

“This massive surfacing scheme is a very practical way of getting more life out of a road for less cost when compared to having to rip a road apart and then rebuild it and it costs around a tenth of what the more conventional methods do. “It’s less disruptive for road users too. We don’t always need a shortterm road closure to get the work done and crews can lay around 50,000 square metres of new surface a day which is the roughly the same as 75 tennis courts.”

(Pic: Lincolnshire County Council)