'Poor' maintenance of Spanish roads due to lack of funding causes accidents, says AEC
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 @ 11:28 PM
MAINTENANCE of Spain's roads is 'extremely bad' and 'lacking in investment', leading to a rise in accidents and damage to cars, claims the Spanish Highways Association (AEC).
It says only those roads which come under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Works have any money spent on them at all, and that even this is not enough.
A total of two per cent of the value of the roads should be invested in maintenance as a minimum every year, the AEC says, which should be 1.6 billion in the case of the Ministry of Public Works, but that the department only spends one billion on highway repairs.
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