{"id":147,"date":"2015-04-14T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/?post_type=question&#038;p=147"},"modified":"2018-02-21T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:35:02","slug":"why-are-some-roads-treated-when-other-local-roads-in-the-area-are-in-a-worse-condition","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/question\/why-are-some-roads-treated-when-other-local-roads-in-the-area-are-in-a-worse-condition","title":{"rendered":"Why are some roads treated when other local roads in the area are in a worse condition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our approach includes a programme of preventative work such as surface dressing, so does not always select the repair of the worst roads first.<\/p>\n<p>The preventative maintenance strategy is making sure that we get the best value out of our funding. A \u201cworst first\u201d approach has been demonstrated to be over 30% more expensive in the long run as it would allow roads in a reasonable condition to deteriorate, resulting in more costly treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faq-topic":[4],"faq-tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","faq-topic-roads-maintenance"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-topic?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"faq-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/devonhighways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}