Cambridgeshire Highways delivers work in a number of areas: highway maintenance, transport asset management, traffic management, street lighting and bridge maintenance as well as the design of major transport infrastructure and transport planning advice.

The transport asset management service is responsible for assessing the condition of the highway network to enable decisions to be taken on prioritising investment.

The highway maintenance service covers both routine cyclic maintenance and planned maintenance works.

Cyclic maintenance includes:
· Pothole repairs
· Cleaning signs
· Replacing road markings and studs (catseyes)
· Verge cutting
· Drainage grip cutting
· Drainage jetting
· Gully emptying
· Weed kill
· Surface dressing
· Slurry seal on footways

The planned maintenance programme covers the patching and resurfacing of roads and the upgrading of highway drainage systems.

For the traffic management service, Cambridgeshire Highways is responsible for the development, design and construction of all traffic management projects up to a value of £500,000.

This covers the following areas:

· Jointly funded minor highway improvements
· Safer Routes to School
· Speed management
· Accident remedial schemes
· Medium sized traffic management and safety schemes
· Cambridge Access strategy schemes
· Market Towns strategy schemes
· Street lighting projects
· Bridge maintenance projects to £500,000

The street lighting service is delivered through a performance contract and has its own Freephone number [0800 253529] to allow faults to be reported for fixing. Most parish councils have maintenance agreements with the County Council for their own parish lighting. The relevant parish clerk should be contacted in the first instant for parish lighting.

Reactive maintenance and accident damage is dealt with through the contract via specialist bridge gangs.

Major bridge and highway schemes costing over £500,000 are constructed through a separate framework contract, with Cambridgeshire Highways undertaking design and supervision.

Traffic signal maintenance and fault repairs are delivered through a separate contract; please call the Council’s contact centre to report any faults for fixing [0845 045 5212].

Footpath maintenance on Rights of Way is handled under separate contracts through the Countryside Service Team who can also be contacted via the contact centre.