Brent's roads and pavements

The state of our roads and pavements is not bad, by comparison with
other neighbouring boroughs. Of course, we all know stretches (especially
footpaths), which are (and look) 'tired'. Every year, as local councillors
we put in bids for priority attention to Fryent's. Over the last few years
we have not done badly with major resurfacing to Kingsbury Road,
Edgware Road, Church Lane, Highfield Avenue and repairs to many
other of the non-principal roads. Priorities are decided mainly by
independent condition surveys and the borough's engineers.

Of course, there is still a lot to do, as the sheer weight of traffic, bad winters
and age make it a constant uphill battle. Nothing annoys more than to see a nice
newly-laid stretch of paving stones broken again by heavy vehicles reversing
or driving over them!

This year again, despite the dire budget situation Brent Council finds itself
in, we managed to maintain that committment with nearly £3million allocated
for upgrades to roads, pavements, grass verges, gulleys, street signage and so on.
In deciding this allocation, the Executive of the Council recently agreed to use
over £1.130 million (39%) on pavements as opposed to £1.09million (37%),on
roads. This will benefit residents all round the Fryent area, including Old
Kenton Lane (pavements) and Mersham Drive (road).

Cllr Jim Moher