Hertfordshire County Council has announced plans to invest an extra £7.892 million in local roads over the next few months.

The local authority is able to resurface and maintain an extra 200 roads in the area after funding was left over from Department for Transport's Local Highways Maintenance Fund in November 2018.

Plans have been revealed to utilise the funding to resurface 68 roads, prepare 43 roads for future surfacing work and carry out surface patching, limited resurfacing or other tidy-up works on 96 roads.

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Phil Bibby, Cabinet Member for Highways, said: "This extra funding means we can do more maintenance and resurfacing work over than the next few months than we had planned to do, which is great news for residents and road users. We'll be resurfacing and patching an extra 200 roads on top of the ambitious maintenance and improvement programme we were already planning between now and March.

"We know that the state of the county's roads really matters to our residents, and they matter to us too. While we can't do everything, we're already investing £40m into maintenance and improvement schemes this financial year, and this extra funding on top of that will make a real difference to roads across the county."

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