Over the last financial year the Johannesburg Roads Agency\u2019s (JRA) received 34,817 requests to repair potholes, of which 34,551 repairs were carried out.<\/p>\n
This is according to the agency’s\u00a0latest assessment of Joburg\u2019s roads network published on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The remaining 266 unresolved requests were carried over to the current financial year and were addressed in July 2017,” the JRA said.<\/p>\n
“JRA maintenance teams across the seven regions have shown great improvement in addressing pothole backlogs with a total of 29,496 potholes repairs carried out within 30 days at a resolution rate of 84.72%.<\/p>\n
“The 2016\/2017 financial year saw R22,125,781.37 invested in public safety to ensure repairs of potholes.<\/p>\n
“Since July 2017 up until 17 October 2017, JRA spent R199,632.23 on the repairs of potholes across the city. A total of 5,603 potholes repair requests were received and 4,750 had been repaired, with the outstanding 853 scheduled for repairs.”<\/p>\n
Roads<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the maintenance and repairs, the report shows that Joburg’s roads are deteriorating.<\/p>\n In comparison to 2013’s results, the assessment indicates that ‘very good’ and ‘good’ surfaced roads have decreased from 52% to 45% in the city, while ‘poor’ and ‘very poor’ roads have increased from 27% to 32%.<\/p>\n 72% of gravel roads are in a poor or very poor condition.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>In terms of engineering standards, the roads condition index across the city has decreased from 89% in 2013 to 64% at present, this indicates a 25% increase in the deterioration of the road network condition,” said\u00a0JRA Acting Managing Director, Goodwill Mbatha.<\/p>\n “The study indicates roads are still deteriorating and present funding allocated is inadequate to address the rate of deterioration. Annual budgets therefore, require a greater fiscal investment to reverse the deterioration of roads and ensure a safe road network.\u201d<\/p>\n Johannesburg\u2019s road network is at present faced with a R7.1 billion backlog of which road resurfacing requires R4.26 billion and reconstruction R2.84 billion.<\/p>\n The cost per kilometre for reconstruction is R4 million and R1 million for surfacing, the JRA said.<\/p>\n
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