More than £1 million is being spent on repairing roads and pavements in Rutherglen and Cambuslang this year.
Figures unveiled at the Cambuslang and Rutherglen area committee last week revealed the 20 projects due to be completed by April 2020.
Almost £875,000 is being spent on resurfacing roads across the area while more than £210,000 is being designated to fix footways.
The most expensive project saw two separate stretches of the A749 East Kilbride Road in Rutherglen repaired for £152,000 and £51,000 respectively.
At the other end of the scale, just £8000 was spent resurfacing Buckingham Drive in Rutherglen.
Six of the 20 projects had been completed by September when the roads investment plan /progress report was being written.
However, roads area manager Martin Muir confirmed 15 of the 20 have now been finished.
Mr Muir added: “The roads network is the council’s highest valued asset at £3 billion.
“Only 29 per cent of residents are satisfied with the roads according to the 2014 household survey.
“Steady state funding of £11m has been committed for the current year.”
Since 2008-09, £137m has been spent improving the condition of roads across South Lanarkshire.
Maintaining and improving the roads network is a top priority fo the council and the £11 million in steady state funding is used to maintain the condition of the roads.
However, councillors Margaret Cowie, Rutherglen South and Walter Brogan , Cambuslang East were concerned that the work of some utilities companies had left roads and pavements in their wards in a poor condition.
Councillor Cowie said: “They are digging a trench and only patching a wee bit of it.
“Why are we letting these big companies tear up our pavements and leave a big mess?”
Mr Muir said that the council was “particularly active” in checking the work of utilities companies including broadband and phone line providers as well as Scottish Water and electricity suppliers.
The criteria for determining whether a road needs resurfacing or a footpaths requires maintenance is different.
A simplified version looking at the condition and the maintenance category is used to rank roads with the highest scoring tackled first.
Footpaths are scored on four criteria looking at the condition, importance/accessibility, defect reports and the assistance to other priorities.
Leader of the Lib Dem group, Councillor Robert Brown said he now gets more complaints about the condition of pavements adding that the council were “good at filling in potholes” but that they were “certainly undulating”.
Councillor Katy Loudon felt that the process was “not as transparent as it could be” because claims and defects reports were not considered when assessing roads.
Councillor Brogan added: “It should be higher for footways as we are more vulnerable than cars.”
Mr Muir clarified that the assessment criteria had been the same for both but that one recommendation of a recent roads review was to simplify the it for roads maintenance.
