Roads and Transport Limpopo 02 August 2011 1. Infrastructure Budget allocation for 2011/12 Upgrading of roads=R770,273m Preventative maintenance= R375,

Roads and Transport Limpopo

02 August 2011

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Infrastructure Budget allocation for 2011/12

• Upgrading of roads=R770,273m• Preventative maintenance= R375, 111m• Routine maintenance= R472,642m• EPWP= R308,289m• Intermodal Facilities= R130,000m• Traffic Stations = R52,968m

• Total Budget = R2,109,283b

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Road Network

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Distribution of road network per District

District

Total

Length of

sealed

roads: km

Total Length

of gravel/dirt

roads: km

Total

Length of

roads: km

Percentage(%)

of paved/

sealed roads:

km

CAPRICORN 987 2,963 3,950 25

MOPANI 1,330 1,820 3,150 42

SEKHUKHUNE 1,301 1,738 3,039 43

VHEMBE 1,438 2,525 3,963 36

WATERBERG 2,088 5,809 7,897 26

TOTALS 7,144 14,855 21,999 100

2011/12 Infrastructure Projects

Type Number of jobs to be created

23 x Road Upgrading project (including R33)

2,800

22 x Preventative Maintenance 1,426

EPWP: 27 x Household based routine maintenance, 7 x Access roads upgrading and 8 x Pothole patching projects

18,966

1 x Transport intermodal facility(with Commercial / retail component)

430

11 x Traffic station projects 354

TOTAL 23,9764

Job Creation

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OBJECTIVE ANNUAL TARGET PROGRESS: QUARTER 1

Number of jobs created 23 976 19 187

Number of youths employed

9 310 7 544

Number of women employed

12 802 13 927

Number of people trained 1 350 625

Projects monitoring structure

Monitoring structure comprises of the following:• The departmental Project Management Unit• Professional Service Providers (consultants)• Departmental Project Monitoring Team

(Technical, Social, Environment and Occupational Health and Safety)

• District Coordinators• Head of Maintenance Centres• Project Steering Committees

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Project processes• Planning and designs

– EPWP projects are up to 70% Labour Content– Other projects are up to 30% Labour content (Preventative and

Upgrading)– Unbundling of projects to accommodate SMME

• Procurement– A minimum of 30% of projects are earmarked for emerging

contractors (CIDB 1-3).• Emerging contractors are selected from the emerging contractor

database to work under the main contractor;

• Projects include road marking, road reserve, etc.

• Implementation– Handing over of the project to the contractor– Engagement of the project monitoring team– Management of the project as per the design

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Developmental Impact• Projects are aligned to Municipal IDP’s

– Upgrading of Access Roads and construction of sidewalks to Public amenities.

• Upgrading of high traffic volume roads (mining, agricultural sectors and tourism)

Criteria for Roads upgrade:– Traffic count: increase in the number of vehicles on the road (400 vehicles per

day)– Potential for the road to grow (increase in economic activities in and around

between growth points)– Increase in Agriculture, Mining and tourism (lead to population growth)– Access to public amenities, hospitals, schools, tribal offices, services delivery

points and linking of human settlements (highly populated) with provincial surfaced roads

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Pothole Repairs

• Visual assessment of road network• Prioritisation of strategic roads• Pothole patching projects • Potholes are repaired through departmental

road maintenance teams and 8 pothole patching contractors– Term contracts for supply of road maintenance

material are in place to speed up pothole repairs

• Turnaround time

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Bridges

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Project District/Area Description Estimated all inclusive

project cost.1 Vhembe Repair 14 bridges in Vhembe District. R18,8m2 Vhembe Repair bridge 6115 and the approaches on road D999. R9,0m3 Vhembe Replace bridge NB180 on road D3753. R17,3m4 Vhembe Repair and lengthen bridge NB045 on road D1489. R16,0m5 Vhembe,

Capricorn & Mopani

Repair 20 bridges in the Vhembe, Capricorn, & Mopani districts.

R20,1m

6 Mopani Repair bridge UN134 over Nwanedzi river R9,6m7 Mopani Repair 17 bridges in Mopani District. R17,0m8 Mopani Repair 10 bridges in Mopani District. R22,0m9 Capricorn Repair and lengthen bridge NB112 on road D3322. R9,6m

10 Capricorn Replace the collapsed bridge NB244 on road D3406 R17,3m11 Capricorn &

WaterbergRepair 19 bridges in Capricorn & Waterberg Districts. R23,4m

12 Waterberg Repair 3 bridges in Waterberg District. R21,4m13 Capricorn &

SekhukhuneRepair 11 bridges in the Capricorn & Sekhukhune Districts

R19,0m

TOTAL : R220,5m

Proposed 13 emergency bridge repair projects

Budget pressures and backlogs• Current funding levels vs. Required budget allocations to address backlogs

• Current budget allocation will allow us to construct 3 000 km of the provincial road network within 26yrs.

• It will cost R28 billion to address the 15 000kms backlog • Depreciation of provincial roads at a cost of R3 billion cannot be ignored as it

negatively affects our roads infrastructure.

• Road maintenance machinery backlog

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Number Price/Unit TotalGraders 71 2,400,000.00 170,400,000.00 Pedestrian rollers 18 106,600.00 1,918,800.00 Excavators 10 1,600,000.00 16,000,000.00 TLB 9 617,000.00 5,553,000.00 Tippers 15 600,000.00 9,000,000.00 Grid Rollers 1 610,000.00 610,000.00 Tow Trailers 4 560,000.00 2,240,000.00 Water Tanker 10 1,000,000.00 10,000,000.00 Total 138 215,721,800.00

Emergency Bridge Repair ProjectsTotal cost estimate = R220,5 million (or R44,1million/year for 5 years)• Address the 102 most deficient bridges.–Bridges are strategically, critically important nodes on the road network, and when a bridge collapse it causes major disruption to the public and affected communities (e.g. Lutanandwa river bridge, Fondwe in Vhembe District.

• 3 multipurpose transport facilities(R102m) – Dilokong, Ba-Phalaborwa, Muswodi. 2 Driving Licence Testing Centers: (R30m) – Polokwane and Lenyenye.

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Budget pressures and backlogs cont.

Way forward• Due to the importance of infrastructure delivery to

improve infrastructure planning and implementation, the Department has intensified its project management unit by: – Intensifying project monitoring and evaluation;– Ensure projects are delivered in time incl. appropriate quality (within

the allocated budget);– Weekly site meeting with contractors;– In-house weekly project progress meetings and – Technical site meetings/inspections.

• Started with planning for the 2012/13 financial year

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Recommendations

Portfolio Committee to note:• the funding limitations to sustain the DRT job

creation initiatives and projects;• the backlogs in the road network and Road

maintenance machinery;• that efforts are being made to deal with the

shocking state of 102 bridges in the short term emergency bridge repair projects

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Recommendations cont.

Portfolio Committee to note:• the postponement of Traffic facilities (DLTC’s,

Multipurpose centres) as this will affect the services we deliver to our people

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THANK YOU

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