ACMA hits out
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GOVERNMENT "ci placency" over expenditun roadworks has been critic by the Asphalt and Coz Macadam Association.
ACMA chairman Stt Jardine told a meeting in IA that underspending on tr roads over the last two y exceeded £120m.
"We are told that money is 'lost'. What n sense! It was allocated to rc in the first place.
"If some new construe has been unavoidably dela let the Department of Tr port take this opportunit: switch funds to the cour now, with a firm recomn dation to spend it on essel road maintenance," he sai, Mr Jardine accused Transport Minister of "b complacency" and ad( "You're joking. He tells t effect, 'there's enough tit( for roads. If I had mo wouldn't know how to sr Mr Jardine said Mr Rod said effectively: "I seE potholes", yet he claimed the AA knew of a quarter million potholes.