Council Road Contractors Slammed
COUNCIL ROAD CONTRACTORS SLAMMED Two Councillors in the West of the County have slammed the standard of service provided by Shropshire Council's new roads maintenance contractor Ringway. Cllr Heather Kidd (Chirbury and Worthen) said "Since Ringway took over the contract about six months ago the standard of road repairs has fallen off dramatically, In my ward alone I have a long list of work not done or botched. I know from colleagues that the same is true of elsewhere in the County." Their concerns about the contract with Ringway are as follows: · Nothing appears to be done with any urgency. · Finding dates for work to be completed seems impossible or extremely slow. Do they have a work programme? · They have had complaints about them coming a fixing a pothole and leaving others because they were reported later. What is the cost of that? · It costs extra to get them back to re-clean gulley's and pipes which they failed to do properly the first time - even where there is a danger of flooding. · They decided to
