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.
There's probably more to it than "surface dressing".
Compare it with cost per km to build a road.
£12,600.Well they've got to factor in the cost of 300 'Cyclists Dismount' signs.
Major work you list above has already been carried out. It's the surface dressing that requires changing.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.
Show us the link.Major work you list above has already been carried out. It's the surface dressing that requires changing.
It's not as wide as a single lane road. A skid steer can block it entirely.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
What type of off-road surface dressing costs £200 per metre?
Still using the cheapo stuff thenRoad surface? That's about what I pay for my hi-fi speaker cables.