Essex County Council have just agreed on a 10 year contract with a commercial company to maintain the roads in Essex.
This is from their press release:
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL TO AWARD CONTRACT FOR INTEGRATED HIGHWAYS PARTNERSHIP
Essex County Council?s Cabinet today approved the award of a contract with Ringway Jacobs Limited to form one of the largest integrated highways partnerships in the UK, which will deliver significant savings and an improved level of service for residents.
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The contract will commence from 1st April 2012 and run for 10 years, with the option to extend for a further period of up to five years. The contract, which has an estimated value of over ?1billion, will ensure that a greater proportion of money is spent on delivering frontline services and improving customer satisfaction.
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The strategic partnership between Essex County Council and Ringway Jacobs Limited will be officially named ?Essex Highways?.
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Nine of the 10 major highways contracts in Essex will expire on the 31 March 2012, with the final contract terminating in 31 March 2013. All these existing contracts to operate Essex?s highways will be replaced with one single long-term partnership arrangement.
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Ringway Jacobs Limited will form a strategic partnership with Essex County Council, bringing with them a proven track record and an innovative approach in delivering highways services.
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The new contract will include the delivery of the majority of highways and transportation services, including infrastructure and structures maintenance, improvement works, public rights of way, winter service, gully emptying and surface dressing.
Will the lines of communication between the person who decides what work will be done and the person who digs and fills the hole be shorter and more effective?
Will the public and councillors get a better response rate to requests and enquiries?
Let’s hope so…. the current system isn’t working!
Can I be the only one wondering – why the shoe ?
To give scale to the picture – to show the size of the hole??
CCR
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No particular significance of the shoe!
I just wanted to have a photo to symbolise highways issues.
So I used this photo I already had of a pothole. I took it recently when reporting the hole (it’s now been fixed). I sometimes put one of my shoes into the hole to give some kind of scale…
So a bonus point to you, CCR !
When Hullbridge Road was relaid the contractors parked their equipment over a large hole at the bottom of Ferndale Road. It had been listed as needing repair by Highways. When it was suggested they do the 2 jobs I was told this was not possible as they were 2 seperate jobs. So please can we have a bit of common sense and all holes in one area done on one day.