Roads and Transport Limpopo 02 August 2011 1

Roads and Transport Limpopo 02 August 2011 1

Infrastructure Budget allocation for 2011/12 • • • Upgrading of roads=R 770, 273 m Preventative maintenance= R 375, 111 m Routine maintenance= R 472, 642 m EPWP= R 308, 289 m Intermodal Facilities= R 130, 000 m Traffic Stations = R 52, 968 m • Total Budget = R 2, 109, 283 b 2

Road Network 3

2011/12 Infrastructure Projects Type Number of jobs to be created 23 x Road Upgrading project (including R 33) 2, 800 22 x Preventative Maintenance 1, 426 EPWP: 27 x Household based routine 18, 966 maintenance, 7 x Access roads upgrading and 8 x Pothole patching projects 1 x Transport intermodal facility 430 (with Commercial / retail component) 11 x Traffic station projects 354 TOTAL 23, 976 4

Job Creation OBJECTIVE Number of jobs created ANNUAL TARGET PROGRESS: QUARTER 1 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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

Bridges Proposed 13 emergency bridge repair projects Project District/Area 1 2 3 4 5 Vhembe Vhembe, Capricorn & Mopani Capricorn & Waterberg Capricorn & Sekhukhune 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 TOTAL : Description Estimated all inclusive project cost. Repair 14 bridges in Vhembe District. Repair bridge 6115 and the approaches on road D 999. Replace bridge NB 180 on road D 3753. Repair and lengthen bridge NB 045 on road D 1489. R 18, 8 m R 9, 0 m R 17, 3 m R 16, 0 m Repair 20 bridges in the Vhembe, Capricorn, & Mopani districts. R 20, 1 m Repair bridge UN 134 over Nwanedzi river Repair 17 bridges in Mopani District. Repair 10 bridges in Mopani District. Repair and lengthen bridge NB 112 on road D 3322. Replace the collapsed bridge NB 244 on road D 3406 R 9, 6 m R 17, 0 m R 22, 0 m R 9, 6 m R 17, 3 m Repair 19 bridges in Capricorn & Waterberg Districts. R 23, 4 m Repair 3 bridges in Waterberg District. R 21, 4 m Repair 11 bridges in the Capricorn & Sekhukhune Districts R 19, 0 m 10 R 220, 5 m

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 26 yrs. • It will cost R 28 billion to address the 15 000 kms backlog • Depreciation of provincial roads at a cost of R 3 billion cannot be ignored as it negatively affects our roads infrastructure. • Road maintenance machinery backlog 11

Budget pressures and backlogs cont. Emergency Bridge Repair Projects Total cost estimate = R 220, 5 million (or R 44, 1 million/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(R 102 m) – Dilokong, Ba. Phalaborwa, Muswodi. 2 Driving Licence Testing Centers: (R 30 m) – Polokwane and Lenyenye. 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

THANK YOU 16