A TOTAL of £1,585,860 will be spent on Waverley's highways this year - the second highest expenditure on roads in a district or borough in the county.
The figure was revealed at Surrey County Council's Waverley local committee at which the Local Transport Plan Task Group highlighted how it plans to target the most important local transportation issues.
A significant proportion of the amount - £630,000 - is to be allocated to the major scheme at Firgrove Hill/Hickleys Corner, which aims to curb the volume of traffic and make the area more pedestrian friendly.
As well as this, a total of £416,000 will be made available for Local Transport Plan schemes across Waverley.
These include traffic calming measures in Echo Barn Lane and Weydon Lane as part of the Safer Routes to School schemes. The designs of both schemes are currently being reviewed following consultation and they are estimated to cost £100,000 each.
Plans for the town centre re-signing project, to aid vehicles travelling to car parks and help pedestrians leaving car parks, are currently underway and will cost around £75,000.
Despite fully supporting the re-signing project and the establishment of a pedestrian network in the town, the task group expressed concern over the cost of the project.
As a result, it was recommended that the local transportation manager should be asked to consider less expensive options.
Concern from town and Waverley councillors was expressed at the lack of funding allocated to the works associated with the East Street redevelopment.
However, because of the uncertainties currently surrounding the proposals and the time scale associated with the project, the task group did not feel it was appropriate to allocate funding at this time.
Commenting on the success of the task group, Maureen Nyazai, chairman of the Waverley local committee, said: "Surrey County Council's decision to let local members be involved in the allocation of the transportation budget for Waverley has been a great success.
"The local committee has come up with a schedule for the whole borough, which means that there is something for everyone. Members have found the process most challenging and are seeing this as yet more proof that the local committee structure is working well."