NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 553
DATE REPLY SUBMITTED: 30 MARCH 2010
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: FRIDAY, 5 MARCH 2010
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NO 6 â 2010)
Mr M S F de Freitas (DA) asked the Minister of Transport:
(1) How many times in the past three financial years has the provincial
road agency of each province conducted an inspection of the condition
of roads in the province;
(2) (a) how many of the roads inspected in each province were classified
as being in a âpoorâ or âvery poorâ condition, (b) of these roads (i)
have been repaired and (ii) still need to be repaired and (c) what
criteria did each agency use to classify the condition of the roads;
(3) whether any of the provincial road agencies adopted any measures in
conjunction with (a) his Ministry and (b) the SA National Road Agency
Limited (Sanral) to establish a uniform set of guidelines to classify
the condition of the roads in each province; if not, why not; if so,
what are the relevant details?
NW667E
REPLY:
The Minister of Transport:
1 The table below summarizes the year of the
last inspection per province:
|Province |Latest: Visual |
| |Condition Assessment |
| |conducted in Year |
|EASTERN CAPE |2008 |
|FREESTATE |2008 |
|GAUTENG |2008 |
|KWAZULU NATAL |2008 |
|LIMPOPO |2007 |
|MPUMALANGA |2004 |
|NORTH WEST |2008 |
|NORTHERN CAPE |2007 |
|WESTERN CAPE |2007 |
Only Limpopo has a Roads Agency and all other provincial authorities have
an in-house roads division responsible for their provincial roads.
Mpumalanga has updated their visuals and this data is busy being uploaded
into the South African National Road Agencyâs Management Information System
(MIS)
2. (a) The table below indicates the summary of Visual Condition for our
roads
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(b) (i), (ii) & (c) There is no centralized road asset management
information system in place at this stage.
(3) (a) & (b) The following national guidelines for the
classification of the condition of roads in South Africa
were utilized:
i) TMH 9: Visual Assessments for Surfaced Roads
ii) TMH12: Visual Assessments for Gravel Roads
These are a uniform set of guidelines to classify the condition
of roads in South Africa and have been in existence since 1992.
This series of guidelines referred to as Technical
Recommendation for Highways and Technical Methods for Highways
are updated by technical workgroups of the Committee of
Transport Officials (COTO) on which technical representative of
all spheres of government are represented.