Local farmers have also been helping the council to keep local roads clear of snow.
Travel-time data was gleaned via cars traversing local roads and arterial routes in addition to highways.
Councillors in Wiltshire and Somerset and the Highways Agency appealed saying traffic would move onto local roads.
It so impressed Somerset county council that it is helping get a fleet of them onto local roads.
The transfer of powers (over education, health and local roads, notably) varies in degree and is still incomplete.
Most heavy-duty machinery is still out repairing the main roads, so local roads are often being restored by hand.
"I am also concerned that local roads should not be subject to HGVs diverting to avoid the tolls, " he said.
The most common scheme involves levying fees on trucks driving on local roads, or crossing regency boundaries, or undergoing mandatory inspections.
The limestone is quality material used to upgrade local roads, and it's prized by contractors, local opposition legislator John Briceno told CTV3 News.
Some of the biggest bangs for the development buck lie in spending on schools and health, and cheap, local roads that tie isolated communities to the broader market.
Only 10% of those who took part in the AA survey rated their local roads very good or excellent, with the lowest ratings going to Scotland and the Yorkshire and Humber region.
These include the original loss of the Borders railway in the 1960s, the loss of the Border Reivers professional rugby team and the lack of improvement to local trunk roads.
Over the last 20 months, bulldozers and backhoes have been whirring in communities across the country, as construction crews from local companies repair roads and bridges, railways and ports.
"We want to encourage economic growth, while reducing bureaucracy for businesses and local communities, " Roads Minister Stephen Hammond said.
These were likely to include "further steps to conserve salt" to ensure the Highways Agency and local authorities could keep roads open.
Up-to-date information from users helped Waze determine main roads and local streets.
FORBES: How Waze Cleverly Uses Drivers To Make Better Maps Than Apple's
Also you only use roads managed by the Highways agency, I think that most roads are local and not covered by the highways agency.
In the land on the sides of these roads, local Mexican small-plot farmers and industrial farms produce coffee for major brands such as Nescafe and Starbucks.
FORBES: Political Risk Analysis: Guatemala and Mexico's OTHER Border
The Conservative-led authority hopes the move will lead towards a more consistent approach to enforcement and will free money to be spent on parking, roads and local transport.
It would also include downgrading the existing Huntingdon A14 viaduct from a trunk road and providing two new roads for local traffic between Trinity Foot and a new Girton interchange.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) said Welsh drivers rely more heavily on main or 'A' roads maintained by local authorities.
Central government should scrutinise more closely how local authorities are investing in roads, light rail and buses, a committee of MPs has said.
Hunt have come to see the advantage of putting trailers on flat wagons for long-haul and using roads only for local pickup and delivery.
If the promised white paper does not provide for legislation to allow local authorities to charge for roads, such schemes will never come into being.
The local authority said it was assessing roads to prioritise repairs according to safety risk.
The local airport has now reopened and roads have been largely cleared of debris, which is helping to speed up aid deliveries to the area, reports say.
Saturday morning's high tide sent waves crashing into closed roads along the seacoast, local police said, but there were no reports of significant damage.
He said he expects Hurricane Irene to flood local marinas and for flooding along coastal roads to start once the heavy rains come on Sunday.
FORBES: Coastal Mass Next To Batten Down For Hurricane Irene
If local authorities do things like make sure roads are maintained, help workers get training so that they can join the oil and gas business if they want to, and protect people on pensions who often struggle with rising living costs in boom towns, everyone can win.
And by the way, here in Florida, you are a gateway for this huge Latin American market that's growing. (Applause.) Which is why, during the Recovery Act, we helped local communities revamp their ports and their roads, so that we can move more products onto those container ships that are sending goods down to Brazil and Mexico and other parts -- Argentina, and all across our hemisphere.
应用推荐