Highways Bulletin: Roadside Rangers Making a Visible Difference Across Surrey

Published on: 27 Jul, 2025
Updated on: 27 Jul, 2025

The information for this bulletin comes from Surrey County Council and is written by them.

Report potholes and highway issues here.

Our Roadside Rangers have been out and about across Surrey this summer – and their work is really starting to show.

In June alone, they:

Refreshed over 150 roads
Cleared and cut back more than 38km of weeds and overgrown vegetation
Cleaned 320 extra drain channels
Repaired and cleaned over 1,200 road signs
Cleaned and painted 220 railings and bollards
Completed 12km of footpath edging

For June, we prioritised key active travel routes in support of National Bike Week, helping to create cleaner, clearer spaces for those walking, cycling or scooting through their communities.

It’s proof that even the smallest jobs can have a huge impact. From clearing paths to painting railings and tidying signs, every little job helps make our communities cleaner, more accessible, and a pleasure to walk through.

You might not notice every job, but the overall effect is clear: our communities are looking cleaner, brighter and more cared for – and that’s something we can all feel proud of.

Over the summer, the Roadside Rangers are focusing on key community hotspots:

July: Entrances to hospitals and medical practices
August: Entrances to schools, colleges and universities

So, if you’re visiting a local hospital, dropping the children off in September, or just walking through your neighbourhood, keep an eye out – you might just spot the difference.

Together, these small improvements are making a big difference to everyday life in Surrey.

For details of roadworks in the Guildford area please click here.

Responses to Highways Bulletin: Roadside Rangers Making a Visible Difference Across Surrey

Roland Dunster Reply

July 30, 2025 at 12:17 pm

I commend SCC and their Roadside Rangers for the work detailed in this article but I do hope that the thorough clearance of the litter, vehicle debris and graffiti that blight and pollute the verges/infrastructure of Surrey’s entire road network is also considered a priority.

Also, the comprehensive collection of the mass abandoned roadworks signs, sandbags, cones etc would be enormously beneficial to SCC’s stated priorities and objectives.
Tony Harrison Reply

August 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm

“Refreshing” a road? What on earth is that nonsense. The state of the roads in the County in terms of potholes, missing road surface and other dangerous hazards has never been worse. The council is doing nothing to address this, other than, in my direct experience, sending out emails saying they have repaired faults when they haven’t. They refuse to give FoI answers to enquiries asking who did the fictious work and when, and how much we taxpayers were fleeced, on the absolutely nonsense grounds of “commercial confidentiality”.

Is this the next great financial scandal waiting to break?
Dave Middleton Reply

August 12, 2025 at 2:34 pm

While I’m glad that this work has taken place, the fact that SCC is making a song and dance about it is somewhat galling when the reason the roads and footpaths are in such a state, is because SCC has been failing to carry out basic maintenance for years, if not decades.

Also, should the highway authority not be aware that we don’t measure highway distances in kilometres in this country. We use miles. Could it be that giving the distances in km, using larger numbers, gives the impression that more has been done.