Road maintenance creates solid network for city growth

Road maintenance creates solid network for city growth

Road safety and maintenance was a high priority in the Logan City Council 2019/20 Budget.

Council has listened to Logan residents and will spend more than $230 million to deliver a safer city road network over the coming 12 months.

Results from the 2018 Logan Listens: Residents Survey affirmed that upkeep of the city’s roads and drainage services remains a primary focus for Logan residents.

Logan’s road network includes approximately 2270 kilometres of sealed road spread across 950 square kilometres.

Logan City Council Road and Water Infrastructure Acting Director Daryl Reilly said an increase to Council’s road maintenance budget was required to properly service the city’s existing road network and ensure it can cater for ongoing growth.

“Council has listened to feedback from the community, particularly the Residents Survey, which indicated having good and well-maintained road infrastructure is a high priority for residents,” he said.

“To ensure Council continues to maintain Logan’s ever-increasing road network, more than $10 million has been allocated to boost the annual road maintenance budgets over the next five years.

“The budget increase will improve the level of service, provide equivalent maintenance to new sections of the network and allow Council to respond to the challenges associated with a growing city.

“Not only is Council committed to maintenance of the road network but we also take road safety very seriously and have increased the line marking budget by $5.2 million over the next five years to improve the prominence of line marking across the city.

“Improved line marking creates safer roads – in particular increasing the visibility of roads at night and in wet conditions.”

Mr Reilly said $150,000 would also be made available to complete the Find and Grind footpath program, to create a safer pedestrian environment around the city for residents and visitors.

“This program of work will allow for lifted sections of footpath to be ground down, rather than replacing the sections of footpath at a much greater cost,” he said.

“Having a program to proactively grind displaced paths will help us to provide a safer network of paths for the city.”

Residents can notify Council if they have concerns over the condition of a concrete footpath. Providing as much information as possible will assist Council in responding to hazards promptly. If possible, including a photograph is also helpful.

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