European research shows that CO2 emissions from vehicles can de reduced by around five per cent by improved maintenance and design to make the surfaces smoother. The research was carried out by members of FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories).
Technical developments are enabling the use of "warm" asphalts in road repairs, bringing in environmental benefits of energy saving, enhanced durability of the carriageway and a quicker reopening of roads to traffic.
From LibDem Leader, Tim Farron ... This is a Government that is just about managing. The official figures have revealed a £220 billion Brexit black hole- hundreds of billions taken out of our economy when we need it most. Given how bad the outlook is, it's no wonder the Chancellor doesn't want to have to do another Autumn Statement.
Hertfordshire Liberal Democrat county councillors have challenged the Conservative administration at County Hall about its repeated failings over highways gulley cleansing.
If there's one thing that all 77 of Hertfordshire's county councillors all agree on, it's this - that they spend to much time coping with highway problems.
In an unusual Parliamentary by-election where the sitting Tory MP resigned to fight as an independent, where the Tories (wisely) did not dare to stand against their rebel, where UKIP failed to stand at all but the man who bankrolls them supported the maverick ex-Tory candidate, where the Labour Party was eclipsed and lost its deposit, where the Greens strategically supported the Liberal Democrats, the result was a classic barnstorming victory for the Liberal Democrats. The newly elected Liberal Democrat MP, Sarah Olney said in the early hours of this morning, "A year and a half ago I wasn't involved in politics, I wasn't a member of a political party, I had never been involved in a political campaign, I had never thought about being a politician....But I knew I was a liberal.