DRIVERS are being warned to expect more roadworks in the Island after a new multi-million-pound road resurfacing project was announced.

The £2.4m programme is to begin next year to create better driving conditions for the Island’s motorists.

But the news means there will be considerably more roadworks for drivers to have to contend with over the next two years.

It has been revealed that the main bulk of the work will be focusing on the St Helier ring road.

During yesterday’s Budget debate on the expenditure of the Environment and Public Services Committee, Senator Philip Ozouf, the committee president, said it had been given some more money to spend on the Island’s roads.

The committee has been given a further £1.5m to spend on road repairs, on top of the usual £900,000.

‘We have been given some extra funding and we are going to spend this to resurface more roads in the Island,’ he said.

But he warned that Ronez may not be the ones carrying out the work.

‘We are not just going to be throwing money at the problem, because that is not how you do it.

We want to get value for money and if necessary we will bring firms in from outside the Island to get the job done.