(18 Sep 2024, 4:55 pm)BusLoverMum wrote The loss of the footbridge on leazes road in Durham because they can't economically replace it illustrates how essential some of this work is.

Indeed. Some of these structures are left until the very last minute, before funds are found to do anything about them.

I know people complain about the state of the roads, but it's not as if Councils decide to leave them looking like that for the sake of it.