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PAC report on local roads funding – LGA statement

“Greater, long-term funding certainty for local highways authorities is needed to tackle the multi-billion pound local roads backlog, as this report recommends."

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Local roads funding announcement – LGA statement

“This extra £500 million for local roads is helpful, but we would ask government to reconsider its decision to hold back a quarter of this funding, in order to give councils the greater certainty they need."

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NAO report on EV public chargepoints rollout – LGA response

“It is great to see progress on EV chargepoint rollout is on track with councils making a significant contribution to this, despite facing severe funding pressures."

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LGA statement on launch of Integrated National Transport Strategy

“Better local transport systems, integrated with devolved services, provides an opportunity for a place-based, user-centred approach to support economic inclusion and people’s everyday lives."

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Reform bus funding ‘labyrinth’ to get people back on board – LGA

The LGA says the current, fragmented funding system for running bus services should be simplified, to help local transport authorities better meet local needs and ensure more people get back on board.

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Report on local road conditions: LGA statement

“Limited resources and a £16.3 billion local roads repair backlog means councils have had to prioritise road repairs according to local circumstances."

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Councils need ‘greater certainty’ around funding – LGA on PAC Active Travel report

“Councils share the Government’s ambition to increase cycling and walking rates and echo the Committee’s call for councils to have greater certainty around funding to reduce carbon and other harmful emissions from transport."

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LGA: Don’t take transport powers away from councils

It is councils - who know their communities best - that should be trusted to make local transport decisions not Whitehall.

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End ‘spiral of decline’ of bus services by handing control to councils

By providing councils with new franchising powers they would be able to keep fares down, increase the number of local bus routes and make buses more attractive for everyone to use.

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Pothole repair funding in UK has reduced more than majority of other OECD nations – LGA analysis

Spending on local road repairs in the UK has been reduced by more than nearly all other OECD countries in almost two decades, new Local Government Association analysis reveals today.

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