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Roads crucial to growth in SA
Gavin Kelly, Chief Executive of The Road Freight Association, says that the condition of our roads
needs to be addressed urgently to prevent further damage to the economy.
he Road Freight Association (RFA) is The South African National Roads Agency
deeply concerned at the deteriorating (SANRAL) is currently responsible for just over
T state of South Africa’s roads and the 22,000km of paved roads, or 3.6 percent of
severe consequences of this. In a recently- the road network and 6 percent of that can be
released report titled South Africa’s Road described as being “poor to very poor”, mostly
Construction Industry – A Regional Look by as a result of provincial roads recently handed
consulting company Frost & Sullivan, it was over to SANRAL to manage.
stated that more than half (54 percent) of the
country’s unpaved road network is in poor to The steady and continual downward
very poor condition, while 30 percent of the trend of the condition of South Africa’s roads
paved network is in poor to very poor condition. needs to be reversed as a matter of urgency.
The internationally accepted norm is that not The reasons for this trend have been clearly
Gavin Kelly, CEO: The Road more than 10 percent of a road network should highlighted in the Frost and Sullivan report –
Freight Association be described as “poor to very poor”. and these need to be corrected.
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