Milton Keynes Council will invest an extra £150,000 in pothole repairs over the next few months.
Following a wet and frosty winter, the council will immediately invest £50,000 from reserves, with the remaining £100,000 being made available from the end of March.
New data from Milton Keynes Council has shown that complaints about potholes are at their lowest ever level in recent times.
Public satisfaction with the city's highways has also increased by over third, from 35% in 2014 to just under 50% last year, placing Milton Keynes in the top ten of satisfaction ratings out of the 154 highway authorities in England. Neighbouring Buckinghamshire scores just 25%.
Milton Keynes also showed the third biggest improvement nationally in highway condition, and was one of only a handful of councils to improve year on year in the previous 12 months.
Increasing the number of pothole repairs and improving roads has been an on-going theme of the Labour-led administration of MK Council, with council leader Pete Marland being nicknamed Pothole Pete by local media.
Pothole Pete said: “Labour have improved our roads in MK and the evidence shows it, but we always want to go further. That’s why we are investing even more in fixing our roads and will continue to do so.”
Cllr Emily Darlington, Cabinet Member for Highways, added: “MK Labour is investing more cash to fix more potholes. We will never be able to fix every pothole, but we can fix more, with better repairs that last longer.
“Since Labour took over running MK Council the number of pothole complaints has halved and the satisfaction with our highways is at its highest ever, one of the best in the country. But we don’t want to rest at better, we want the best. The winter autumn and winter, as well as recent freezing temperatures mean we have work to do in the spring, and we are putting extra cash into getting more repairs done.”
