This junction is due to be resurfaced this year: the signals will also be revamped (there have been some issues about seemingly unnecessary waiting times which need to be addressed).

Meanwhile the Victoria Street ‘trench’, clearly visible along stretches of the road and painfully apparent to cyclists, will be repaired. The trench was caused by a utility’s poorly conducted digging works. Despite this, the repairs will have to be done at the county council’s expense.

This is an example of a private utility being subsidised from the public purse.