Local highways maintenance transparency report

Buckinghamshire Council, as the Highway Authority, is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the highway network within Buckinghamshire.

The highway network is recognised as our most valuable asset in terms of both financial and socio-economic value, and we therefore have a duty to maintain it so that it can serve Buckinghamshire’s road users.

We do not, however, maintain trunk roads or motorways which are the responsibility of National Highways.

* The footway length includes surfaced rights of way in towns and minor footways through estates which are included in our safety inspections.

**The total length of cycleway network includes on carriageway and on footway routes across the area, many forming the national cycle network, and other more local routes such as the gemstone routes in and around Aylesbury.

As well as the key assets that comprise our network shown in the table above, Buckinghamshire Highways maintains a variety of assets that support the 3,186km of carriageway, including almost:

• 30,000 street lights
• 232 sets of traffic lights (including 134 pedestrian crossings)
• 707 bridge structures (including pedestrian subways and retaining walls)
• over 85,000 drainage assets and approximately 44,000 road signs (both illuminated and non-illuminated)

Notwithstanding, a range of additional assets such as grit bins, bollards, road markings, fencing, vehicle restraint systems (VRS) and green infrastructure (for example trees and grass verges).