Tshwane metro making progress with pothole repairs
"We have fixed 6 779 potholes in four months."
Tshwane mayor Randall Williams said the metro has found a sustainable workflow process to ensure potholes are speedily dealt with on its roads.
Many parts of the metro have been plagued by potholes with motorists sometimes sustaining damage to their vehicles.
Williams said this week that the metro was making progress having produced 1 014 tonnes of hot asphalt which has been used to fill approximately 6 779 potholes.
“Through the introduction of the weekly service delivery war room we quickly introduced tracking in place to assess the performance of our service delivery teams so we can accelerate the repairs of roads in the municipality,” Williams said.
“The first area of intervention was confirming that the city had the necessary resources in place to ensure it can provide proper repairs to our road infrastructure.”
Williams said when he assumed office, he learnt there was no suitable tender in place to ensure the city could procure bitumen to facilitate the production of hot asphalt.
“This became a core priority and was addressed and finalised during December 2020,” he said.
“Since then our teams have been aggressively conducting road infrastructure maintenance across Tshwane.”
Williams said more work still needed to be done and that the maintenance of road infrastructure was a critical foundation of core service delivery.
He said if potholes are addressed early, the metro could prevent longer-lasting damage to roads in the future.
“When the new administration in Tshwane took office one of the key goals of my 10-point intervention plan was that we maintain and expand our road infrastructure,” he said.
“Thank you to all our residents who report potholes so that we can keep our city accessible.”
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