A council is promising smoother roads with the launch of a summer £6 million resurfacing project, covering 177 miles across the county.
This summer Lincolnshire County Council’s highways team will be visiting 227 streets in the county, as part of its biggest ever resurfacing project.
Twenty-six-thousand tonnes of material will be used to surface dress the roads.
The repair method includes laying small stone chips and binding them with tar. Once the stones are bedded in it makes the surface more level and adds another 10 years on a road’s life.
Richard Fenwick, head of highways service at the council, described the scheme as getting ‘more life out of a road at a lot less cost’.
“It’s such an efficient way of improving a road that it ends up costing about a tenth of what we’d have to spend on other techniques,” he said.
“It’s faster too, on a good day we can put down around 30,000 square metres of surface which is the same as 154 Wimbledon tennis courts.
“We don’t always need a full road closure to do this, either – which really saves on traffic disruption.”
In total, 177 miles of Lincolnshire roads will be getting the stone chip makeover – which is enough to cover a road running from Lincoln to Bristol.
To lessen the environmental impact 10,000 tonnes of recycled material will be used, which comes from sweepings of loose chippings from last season’s works.
Highways crews will get rolling next Monday (July 8), with the project expected to run through to the end of August. If there are periods of rain or extreme heat this could be extended.