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Recent severe weather

Hertfordshire's drivers will have noticed a severe deterioration in the condition of the roads over recent weeks.
The coldest weather conditions for nearly 30 years have taken their toll on Hertfordshire's roads, footways and cycleways.

Rain water and thawing snow have seeped into small cracks in the road. As temperatures dip, the water freezes and expands, enlarging the cracks. This causes cracks and pot-holes to appear, overnight in some cases, even in roads that otherwise appear sound. The unusually prolonged cold conditions so far this year mean many more roads across the County have been damaged than in a normal winter.

We would like to reassure local residents and road users that we will work as quickly as we can to repair this unusually extensive damage, but we ask for your patience as this may take some time. We are putting together special programmes of inspection and repair so that we can bring the whole network back to an acceptable level as quickly as possible

However, the volume of work may mean that we cannot meet our normal standard in every single case. In the meantime we will keep the roads safe, using quick-setting or temporary materials where required, to deal with immediate hazards.