00:00Leeds City Council is exploring the use of three new pothole-filling technologies which could help improve the speed, quality
00:07and cost-effectiveness of pothole repairs across the city.
00:10The trials follow similar tests carried out last year and come after a recent report to the Council's Infrastructure, Investment
00:18and Inclusive Growth Scrutiny Board on its Highway Maintenance Strategy, where members welcomed a proactive approach to strengthening the city's
00:27pothole repair capability.
00:30So I'm Councillor Jonathan Pryor, I'm Deputy Leader of Leeds City Council and today we are continuing our work to
00:36look at new technologies to repair our roads and repair potholes.
00:40At the Leeds City Council budget earlier this year we agreed £13 million additional extra for pothole funding and an
00:47extra £1 million in new technologies.
00:50So today we are looking at the thermal road testing and what this does is this heats a section of
00:55the road so you can scrape it off and relay a new surface with new materials in.
01:00This is an incredibly eco-friendly way of doing it, it reduces the carbon output compared to traditional pothole filling
01:06by 85%.
01:08Also because we're heating it it's seamless meaning we won't get those issues where water gets back in the cracks
01:13and breaks a chunk off.
01:16So today we're out testing this, we've got the team out working with it, seeing how it works.
01:21Once we've tested this and other methods we'll be looking at how we spend that £1 million of infrastructure on
01:26how we speed up and get better repairs of our roads.
01:29We'll see you next time.
01:29We'll see you next time.
01:29We'll see you next time.
01:30I'll see you next time.
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