Question reference: S3W-10018
- Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Ochil, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 19 February 2008
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Current status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 March 2008
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to improve or review the current regulations for ensuring that road users are kept informed of the likely completion dates of road maintenance projects.
Answer
When carrying out road maintenance projects, road authorities throughout Scotland are expected to conform to the Code of Practice for Maintenance Management “ Delivering Best Value in Highway Maintenance.
This Code of Practice, was prepared and published by The Institution of Highways and Transportation and has been supported, endorsed and recommended by, among others, The Scottish Government and COSLA as well as the Department for Transport and the other devolved administrations.
It contains guidance on information and publicity of road works and advocates the use of information boards, which can include a likely completion date, on site both prior to and during road maintenance projects.
The Scottish Government is not aware of instances where this guidance is not being adhered to and there are no plans at present to introduce legislation making it a requirement for maintenance companies to display more prominently information boards displaying an expected completion date of a road maintenance project.