British roads are in famously poor condition. Why is this? They didn’t use to be. Are we really so broke that we cannot have our roads maintained?I don’t think it’s because there’s no money – we see ‘improvement initiatives’ all the time. Like, for example ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhoods’. These seem pretty well universally unpopular and move traffic patterns unpredictably. Yet councils press ahead with them all the time. Why cannot the money spent on these be put to better use?