I am advised

The Regional and Local Roads Repair Program was a $500 million program established by the former Liberal-National Government to assist local councils across NSW with urgent road repairs, priority corrective maintenance and repair of potholes on Regional and Local roads.

The Regional and Local Roads Repair Program was established so all NSW councils had access to funding to repair damaged local and regional roads under their care and responsibility. The grant funding was made available to eligible councils and authorities to undertake priority maintenance works and immediate repairs on their Local and Regional roads.

Unfortunately under the program, councils in regional areas were only eligible for funding of $1,823 per kilometre, compared to metropolitan councils which were eligible for funding of over $10,000 per kilometre.

The new NSW Government will provide an additional $390 million over the next two years, as part of our new Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund (RERRF). This commitment is an increase on the

former Government’s RLRRP, of which $280 million went to regional councils. It will accelerate the vital work of repairing our regional roads. This will bring the total funding to $670 million for emergency road repair in regional, rural and remote communities and towns, over the next two years