What We Look After

Roads

• Most of our roads are classed as urban.
• We look after 510 kilometres of road.
• If we had to rebuild all our roads today, it was cost around £720 million.
• We collect condition data to help plan where we do our maintenance work.
• This data is telling us that 5% of the roads could be considered for maintenance.

Report a pothole in the road

Learn more about how we maintain our roads.

Traffic Signals

• Our traffic signals allow traffic to flow safely around Bournemouth.
• We have 51 traffic signal junctions and 115 crossings to maintain.
• We do safety inspections to understand the condition and when to replace the equipment.
• The general condition of our traffic signals is average.
• These systems are sometimes referred to as Intelligent Transportation Systems or ITS.

More about Traffic Signal maintenance.

Drainage

• We have 22,000 gullies across Bournemouth to keep clean.
• As part of major road maintenance works we make sure gullies are repaired to take water to underground pipes.

Report a problem with drains on the road

Find out about the work we do on our Drainage system.

Flooding  - find out who to report a problem to.

Street Lighting

• We look after 20,000 street lights to keep Bournemouth safe at night.

Report a faulty street light

Learn more about how we maintain our Street Lights.

Street Lights in Bournemouth.

Paths

• We look after 1200 kilometres of paths.
• If we had to rebuild all our paths today, it was cost around £373 million.
• We collect condition data to help plan where we do our maintenance work.
• This data is telling us that 17% of the paths could be considered for maintenance.
• Paths are sometimes referred to as footways or pavements.

Report a pothole in the pavement

More detail on Path maintenance.

Bridges

• We have 23 bridges and 72 other structures to look after.
• If we had to rebuild all our structures today, it was cost around £153 million.
• We do safety inspections to understand the condition and when to replace parts of the bridge.

Find out about the work we do on our bridges.