ANGRY residents have spoken out after their crumbling roads were left off a council repairs list.
Redbridge Council has listed 50 roads in the borough that need major resurfacing, but has admitted that it can probably afford to work on just 10 this year.
Only two of these - Cross Road and Brackley Square - are in Woodford Green, leaving eight in the area in need of substantial repairs.
Jackie Eustace, of Maldon Walk, off Greenstead Avenue, said she was fed up of having to drive onto the kerb to try and avoid the potholes on the narrow road.
“I would have thought this would be one of the roads they would repair,” she said.
“You can’t avoid the potholes. I’ve lived here since 2003 and it’s been like that since then.
“Lorries and school buses turn around at the end, near my house, which makes it worse.”
Redbridge Council missed out on £1.2 billion from the Government to repair roads two years ago, when the Guardian reported that some Redbridge streets faced a 150-year wait for resurfacing at the current rate of work.
Another Maldon Walk resident, Jenny Pearce, said: “I think it’s disgusting because this is one of the worst roads and it’s been like that for a very long time.
“It’s bad enough having to bump up and down the kerbstones because of the narrow road. You have to go through the potholes and spend a lot of money on car repairs.”
When the icy weather took hold at the start of the year, the council spent nearly 40 per cent more on urgent road repairs than in the same period the year before.
Glastonbury Avenue resident David Webb, whose road will also miss out on resurfacing this year, said: "You get to know the worst bits and try to avoid them, but you can't always. I worry about my car and my tyres being damaged."
Other roads in Woodford Green that will miss out on resurfacing are Broad Oak, Gaynes Hill Road, Danbury Way, Vernon Avenue and Empress Avenue, despite all being on the council’s top 50 roads needing repair.
A council spokeswoman said: "The prioritisation process is based largely on the condition of the road, but fine tuning of the programme between the many roads in similarly bad condition takes into account other issues like traffic flows and importance to local shopping areas or other traffic generators such as hospitals, stations and schools."
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