Listener’s to this week’s Highways Voices podcast will hear from three local authorities, discussing the challenges faced in delivering efficient, sustainable and safe transport networks, at a SWARCO User Group meeting held in Coventry.

In the discussion hosted by Highways Voices producer and presenter Paul Hutton, fellow panellist Emily Madsen explains that attracting people into the industry is tough with remuneration as it is “We need to raise the pay,” she says, “so that it does get people interested and stay and get that retention of people.” David Hilton-Barber from Derbyshire also agreed retention was an issue, “Obviously, you’re gonna go somewhere where you get a better job,” he says, “but as a council we spend all this time training someone, spending the effort and the money, and [they leave and] get paid twice as much going anywhere else.”