With the frosty weather apparently still not behind us, highway engineers will be casting worried glances at vulnerable carriageway surfaces.

Some are already showing signs of cracking. These include Acomb Wood Drive which is on a bus route.

Further along the same bus route the surface of part of Ryecroft Avenue is beginning to disintegrate.

It appears that the Council have also halted this years footpath resurfacing programme.

They should have completed work in the Foxwood area by now. There are rumours of budget overspends (not born out by reports to Council monitoring committees) but regrettably officials have yet to confirm a revised resurfacing timetable.

Hopefully tomorrows Council budget decisions will concentrate n providing adequate funding to sustain basic street level  services like these.