In celebration of Transport Month, the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has set 9 October as the launch date for the City of Joburg’s Roads Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Programme.
This programme will form part of the entity’s R5.6 billion budget for the period of 2014 to 2016.
Managing director at JRA Skhumbuzo Macozoma said, “We have introduced a structured approach to road management that prioritises the preservation of existing infrastructure, keeping it in good condition and not allowing it to deteriorate to a poor condition. Consequently, following a Visual Condition Index Assessment of the entire city’s road network, the entity had implemented a response plan.”
The roll-out of the response plan to the Visual Condition Index started in 2013, with the launch of the roads resurfacing programme that, for example, beautified a suburb like Ruimsig in Ward 97. Ward 126 community liaison officer Jan von der Heyde said, “The roads resurfacing programme is working well so far as a couple of roads in the area have received attention and a couple of the bigger potholes have been filled up.”
Macozoma added that the entity will launch a repair project that will focus on storm water projects in and around Johannesburg.
He said, “The entity has successfully developed a five-year strategy for road network management and has conducted infrastructure audits and we are now rolling out a structured response plan to the current condition of roads in the city. A draft of a 10-year roads plan has also been drawn up and will be finalised soon.”
