£200 per metre

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classic33

Leg End Member
What type of off-road surface dressing costs £200 per metre?

Local council awarded £1,450,000 to make a canal towpath into a dual use cycleway.
 
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classic33

classic33

Leg End Member
For a new road you could use about £100-£150/sqm (Assuming a lot of things such as land/planning/preparation is not required and that there would be no significant structures/earthworks ).

So for 10miles that would be about 15million quid assuming a 8.3m xsection.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1423119

Surface in most parts were brought upto a off-road walking route standard, including major works related to it only a few years ago. They've to change the surface dressing for cycles.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
If they're going to do the job properly they need to excavate the existing path, lay proper foundations and drains before putting on the tarmac top layer.

Perhaps if you provided a link to the reports someone who properly understands these things can tell you where the fairly modest budget is going.
 
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classic33

classic33

Leg End Member
If they're going to do the job properly they need to excavate the existing path, lay proper foundations and drains before putting on the tarmac top layer.

Perhaps if you provided a link to the reports someone who properly understands these things can tell you where the fairly modest budget is going.
Major work you list above has already been carried out. It's the surface dressing that requires changing.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Major work you list above has already been carried out. It's the surface dressing that requires changing.
Show us the link.

There's no way that a footpath's foundations are adequate for a bike path.
 
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classic33

classic33

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Roads vary massively due to tunnels, bridges and stuff but something more meaningful here...

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average cost of building a kilometre of road lane was in each year since 1997. [125978]

Dr. Ladyman: The following table lists the cost per kilometre in real terms of building road lanes on the strategic roads network in each complete year since 1997.

The ranges of cost reflect the different types of projects delivered in each year since 1997. Seven projects were delivered in 1999-2000, two of which included tunnels. Only one project adding lane capacity was completed in 2001-02 and the majority of its cost was in strengthening an existing bridge.

Cost per lane km in real terms (£ million)
1997-98

£2.8

1998-99

£4.4

1999-2000

£10.2

2000-01

£2.7

2001-02

£34.9

2002-03

£1.2

2003-04

£2.6

2004-05

£1.6

2005-06

£3.5

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070329/text/70329w0010.htm
It's not as wide as a single lane road. A skid steer can block it entirely.
 
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