Northamptonshire Roads

Rushden and Higham Ferrers roads were once more warmly commended in the annual report of the County Surveyor, presented at Yesterday’s meeting of the Northamptonshire County Council. The roads in the Rushden urban district, says the County Surveyor, “are well maintained and in excellent condition.” Of the roads in the borough of Higham Ferrers, the County Surveyor says they “are well maintained, and the general surface work is well attended to.” The northern section of the Kettering to Bedford road, he adds, is damaged by motor ‘bus traffic. Dealing with the roads in the county generally, the report states that the increasing motor traffic stripped the surface of many of the roads, and a large amount of patching material was required. “The maintaining of a true surface on the heavier trafficked roads,” the County Surveyor adds, “is becoming increasingly difficult, and nothing short of re-surfacing with grouted material or tar-macadam will successfully maintain a true surface under modern traffic.”