Barton said the crews will be giving “permanent” fixes to roads for all 12 months of the year.
“Everyone knows we have put a lot of investment into highways, this is phase one and we will be announcing phase two in a few weeks,” he said.
“We know we have a big problem across the county and people will see a massive difference.
“The crews will be out 12 months of the year, which has never been done before.
“We are carrying out permanent fixes. Temporary fixes will still happen at busy junctions but these crews are going out to fix it properly, so it will last for years unless we resurface the road.
When questioned why some residents felt improvements had not been made since he came into power last May, Barton said: “There isn’t a county council putting money into roads like we are doing – phase two will be record breaking.
“This is now our budget, we used a previous administration’s budget for last year and we still resurfaced 200 miles of road.
“We had an unprecedented winter. We are not looking back, we are looking forward.
“It’s our budget now and we are going to sort our roads, it’s at the top of the list.”
