Periodic Road Maintenance Work On Slow Mode

Fiji Roads Authority chief ex­ecutive officer Kamal Prasad said the progress of periodic road maintenance works such as road repainting, compacting and sealing has slowed down.

However, routine road works will continue until the next fi­nancial year.

“There’s routine maintenance and the periodic maintenance. Routine maintenance are things like grass cutting, drain clean­ing and pothole patching or re-sheeting, those are our routine kind of maintenance,” he said.

“We started that programme of sealed rehab and unsealed re­habs and it’s all population and vehicle number driven, wher­ever there are more vehicles or it is population driven, that’s where we have more effort but it doesn’t mean we don’t go to the areas with fewer vehicles, but it is proportionate when we are dealing with the level of service the road has.”

He said FRA’s road pro­grammes were in effect at the moment.

“The budget was $376,744mil­lion for this financial year; there are some redeployments. It’s not specifically that the Western Division has this much money or the Central Division has this much money,” he said.

“The number of road works done by FRA will depend on how much funding there is.”

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