Local councils face a $1.3 billion bill for road repairs after recent catastrophic flooding, as the condition of the state's roads looms as an election issue.
Kilometres upon kilometres of roads across New South Wales left scarred by recent catastrophic flooding has the latest estimate for local councils sitting at $1.3 billion.Resilience NSW has released new figures showing the state's floods caused $1.3 billion in damage to roads managed by councils
Regional Roads Minister Sam Farraway said the figures from Resilience NSW showed the damage to state-owned roads was an additional $150 million.But he said the repair work had a long way to go. An additional jointly funded state and federal package of $312 million had also been provided to the Northern Rivers region for infrastructure resilience and improvement.
"It's also questionable whether councils will have the capacity to fix them all — it is a real problem."The damage caused by storm and flood events in March came after the release of a report that found 77 per cent of state-managed roads had exceeded the typical minimum design life of 20 years.
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