Tens of thousands of potholes across West Yorkshire are expected to be repaired after councils were given a share of £15m of government funding to fix damaged roads.
The money, allocated by the Department for Transport and approved by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA), is due to pay for resurfacing, patching and other maintenance across the region.
Bradford will receive just short of £3.19m, with the council leader saying the authority planned to repair 20,000 potholes by April and would look at buying two “super pothole machines”.
Meanwhile, Leeds has been given nearly £4.9m, Kirklees £3.1m, Wakefield £2.5m and Calderdale £1.9m to fund the work.
A WYCA report said the money would pay for more than 12.4 miles (20km) of renewed highways and about 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m) of carriageway patching – roughly the same surface area as five football pitches.
The report said many of the projects would take place in some of the county’s most deprived communities, helping to reduce motoring costs for residents, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
