A study put together by MoneyBarn (Vehicle Finance Experts) has found Herefordshire to be the roadwork capital of the United Kingdom.
On average it is estimated that UK motorists lose 28 hours a year due to being stuck in traffic caused by roadworks, and almost everyone in the country has been impacted by them at some point.
The study found that in Herefordshire, a total of 105,614 roadworks had been completed in the past two years, with Sheffield in second place with a total of 84,587 roadworks in the past two years and Birmingham in third place with a total of 79,538 roadworks in the same time period.
The study says that, “The west English county of Herefordshire has seen the most road and street works undertaken in the past two years by the council and utilities. With over 100,00 it is the only council area of any type in the country with a six-figure number of roadwork projects. Furthermore, it is almost 90,000 more than the national average for the same period.”
Full article – https://www.moneybarn.com/blog/latest-motor-news/roadwork-capitals/
How the data was collated:
- All the data was collected by sending FOIs to councils across the UK requesting: “Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the number of street works and road works carried out by the council for both the 2019/20 and 2020/21 financial years. If possible, I would also like to know the longest-running works that took place in both of these periods.”
- Out of 395 councils that the request was sent to, 244 did not respond, declined the request, or sent unusable data.
- This left 151 councils that were ranked by the total number of roadworks over the past two years.
- We then calculated the difference between the number of roadworks in both 2019/20 and 2020/21.
