Scrap road building to pay for fixing potholes, says Green Party

Party's transport spokesman tells Cycling Weekly that the big issue with potholes is vast sums of money stripped from local government budgets

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The amount of money spent on road building by the government is “absurd” as road maintenance budgets suffer, the Green Party has said.

Speaking to Cycling Weekly this month, Councillor Matt Edwards, the party’s transport spokesman, said cyclists are bearing the brunt of the UK’s pothole problem.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.