Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services
In 2022 the ACT Government announced a significant increase in road maintenance of $153 million over four years to repair and preserve Canberra’s roads.
The ACT Government’s annual road resurfacing program has returned to ensure major arterial roads and suburban streets remain safe.
In 2022 the ACT Government announced a significant increase in road maintenance of $153 million over four years to repair and preserve Canberra’s roads.
This is a 52 per cent increase in expenditure for road maintenance and a 150 per cent increase for asphalting.
The program follows research by the Australian Road Research Board and focuses on road rehabilitation as well as preventative resealing.
In 2022-23, ACT road maintenance teams repaired more than 12,000 potholes across the territory.
Road rehabilitation projects will begin in coming months on David Walsh Avenue in Forde.
There is also design work underway for further works on sections of the Monaro Highway, Kings Highway and Sulwood Drive.
Road resurfacing works are generally undertaken each year during warmer weather conditions.
The service life of a highly trafficked road is over 10 years whilst residential streets often deliver 25 to 30 years of service.
Road resurfacing treatments include road resealing, asphalt resurfacing and microsurfacing which helps to waterproof the road, improve skid resistance and fill cracks in the pavement.
Overnight asphalt resurfacing work was completed this week on sections of the Tuggeranong Parkway at Weston Creek over the Molonglo River.
This follows asphalt patching work that was undertaken in the area earlier in 2023 after Fix My Street requests were received from the community.
Major roads to receive road resurfacing treatment over coming months will include:
- Deakin – Adelaide Avenue, between State Circle and Kent Street
- Molonglo Valley – Tuggeranong Parkway, southbound between Lady Denman Drive and Cotter Road
- Belconnen – Gungahlin Drive, several sections in both directions between the Barton Highway and Glenloch Interchange
- Hall – Barton Highway, from Kuringa Drive towards the ACT/NSW border
- Watson – Federal Highway, from Antill Street towards the ACT/NSW border
- Belconnen – William Hovell Drive, both directions between Bindubi Street and Coulter Drive
- City – Akuna Street
- Tuggeranong – Anketell Street, several sections
- Woden Valley – Various intersections along Hindmarsh Drive.
For more information on road resurfacing, including a map of the full program and daily updates on roads receiving treatment, visit cityservices.act.gov.au
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