RSTA welcomes the focus on long-term road maintenance

The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has welcomed the Government’s commitment to longer-term road maintenance by committing a total of £24 billion from 2026/7-2029/30 for local and national road maintenance. For a long time, the RSTA has called for more preventative maintenance to be adopted to stop more and more roads falling into poor condition […]

Opinion: Breaking the Cycle – Why road maintenance needs a revolution

Innovation in road maintenance and repair remains an elusive goal for many local authorities, constrained by entrenched practices and excessive bureaucracy. Despite the promise of new government funding, much of it risks being squandered without meaningful change in how contracts are managed, and innovation is embraced, says Christie Raptaki, CEO and founder of Roadfill. The […]

Local roads branded “national embarrassment”

The UK’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called out DfT for not taking its responsibilities and use of public money on local roads seriously enough.   The state of England’s local roads is declining, as a multibillion-pound repair backlog grows. As people grow increasingly unhappy with the levels of disrepair and with increasing damage to vehicles […]

Quebec City deploys GEWI Work Zone Solution

Quebec City in Canada is boosting efficiency on its road network by using a beginning-to-end solution to manage all the work zones in its area. The city, which is home to 550,000 people has a specific challenge when it comes to building new roads and maintaining its existing ones, because the weather limits work to […]