The works ministry, by way of the general public works division will conduct pothole repairs by way of the Aku Janji Zero Potholes (“I Promise Zero Potholes”) marketing campaign that was reintroduced final July, Bernama reported.
The works ministry mentioned in an announcement that the earlier Aku Janji Zero Potholes marketing campaign that ran from 2016 to 2018 aimed to strengthen the ministry’s dedication in direction of the upkeep of roads within the nation.
“Beneath this marketing campaign, pothole repairs might be carried out inside 24 hours of its discovery or complaints and in three days for everlasting repairs as said within the Federal Highway Upkeep contract,” mentioned the assertion, which outlined pothole harm as holes with diameters starting from 200 mm to 1,000 mm.
We’ve got been right here earlier than. Kuala Lumpur Metropolis Corridor (DBKL) mentioned in February 2016 that the town might be pothole-free by 2017, and adopted up every week later to say that the ministry had set a key efficiency indicator to make sure repairs of potholes or easy damages are acted on inside 24 hours.
Main or sophisticated damages might be acted upon inside 14 days of receiving a report, or not multiple 12 months for different damages, it mentioned on the time. The identical goal was set for Johor in Could that 12 months.
Potholes of diameters lower than 200 mm might be stuffed instantly, although these is not going to contain slicing. Holes which can be 1,000 mm in diameter would require highway slicing earlier than the holes are stuffed, the newest assertion mentioned. “If the dimension of the opening exceeds 1,000 mm, then it must be thought-about as pavement failure,” it mentioned.
The ministry had allotted RM1.09 billion for the upkeep of federal roads all through the nation, together with for electrical energy, site visitors lights and avenue lamp payments for 2021, based on its assertion. RM100 million in allocations for the implementation of ‘weight in movement’ at federal roads have been accredited by the federal government by way of the 2021 Price range, it mentioned.
“The ministry will cooperate with the Transport Ministry to make sure that highway surfaces will not be simply broken as a result of overloading of autos,” the assertion learn.
A complete of 4,091 complaints relating to public infrastructure have been obtained by the ministry and the general public works division as of November 30, and of those, 1,473 have been for broken roads. All complaints have been processed and motion has been taken by the JKR, based on the assertion.
Final 12 months, nearly 200,000 potholes have been discovered and repaired by way of monitoring and patrols by PWD in 2019 whereas 64,000 potholes have been recorded with motion taken as of final June, it additionally mentioned.
The problem of broken roads returned to the scrutiny of the general public after science, expertise and innovation minister Khairy Jamaluddin was injured in a bicycle crash, which resulted from lack of management after hitting a pothole within the highway.
