MORE than 100 miles of road were repaired in Cumbria last year, new figures show.

Department for Transport data showed 138.7 miles of roads in Cumbria had improvement work done in the year to March 2023 – down 284.8 miles from five years ago.

In Cumbria, 28.1 miles of main roads had work done.

Nationally, 4,144 miles of road received treatment by local authorities in 2022-23 compared with 7.510 miles in 2017-18.

After a fall in road maintenance repairs across the country, RAC head of policy Simon Williams has urged local authorities to take a ‘traffic light’ approach.

The approach would see roads classified as being in a green or amber condition undergo preventative maintenance, while those categorised as red would need to be fully restructured or strengthened.

In Cumbria, 2% of main roads and motorways were categorised as red and 21% fell into the amber category.

The figures comes as the Government announced it would provide £8.3 billion of extra funding over 11 years to fix potholes in England, using money saved by scrapping the planned extension of HS2 north of Birmingham.

However, Mr Williams warned that this “isn’t nearly enough for a long-term fix.”