Sadly not true - father was a civil engineer in council highways dept before he retired. For years he had been saying that funding was so small they were having

Sadly not true - father was a civil engineer in council highways dept before he retired. For years he had been saying that funding was so small they were having to patch roads where they should have been renewing the road bed. Now they can't even afford to do all roads. It might be a problem of funding allocation of course - but it wasn't a lack of desire.