Bridge repairs fall behind amid rising flood costs: More extreme floods pose a growing problem to Britain's ageing public infrastructure, especially bridges, E&T finds

SEVERE storms last year have added to a backlog in maintaining the UK's ageing bridges, and more floods are likely to make the situation worse. Councils hit hardest by the floods in late 2019 and 2020 face a combined bill of half a billion pounds to fix bridges in need of repair, E&T has calculated from Freedom of Information (FOI) data acquired by the RAC Foundation.