Turnpike-Chikankata Road Intact - RDA

ROAD Development Agency-RDA has refuted claims by some members of the public that the newly rehabilitated 38.5 kilometers Turnpike-Chikankata T1 road is rutting.

Agency Communications and Corporate affairs Director Masuzyo Ndhlovu said the road is intact with no signs of rutting.

Mr. Ndhlovu said a team from the agency inspected the road as part of the handover procedures and did not notice any rutting.

“The concerns by the general public that the TurnpikeChikankata road is rutting are not true, we recently did an inspection on February 16, as part of the handover procedures and our team on the ground did not notice any rutting,” he said.

Some members of the public had raised concerns that the newly rehabilitated Turnpike-Chikankata road is rutting.

Members of the public claimed that they have noticed the wheel path was being engraved in the road covering a stretch of 38.5 kilometers which is phase one of the Kafue-Mazabuka road rehabilitation project.

And Mr. Ndhlovu further assured that the nation that RDA would, however, continue to monitor the performance of the road in all aspects which include among others rutting and cracking.

He said the Defects Liability Period (DLP) of one year would come into effect after the contractor, China Henan International Corporation Group Company Limited, hands over the road to the RDA in a few weeks’ time.

The RDA director communications and corporate affairs added the contractor would work on any defects that would appear on the road during the one-year Defects Liability Period.

Mr. Ndhlovu said the Defects Liability Period was done over a period of one year to ensure that there is value for money for the contracted work.

“After the road is handed over by the contractor to the RDA, this will be done within the next few weeks, the Defects Liability Period (DLP) of one year will come into effect, during the DLP the contract will make good any defects that will appear,” he said. Under phase one the road rehabilitation works on Turnpike-Chikankata T1 road consisted of widening the existing road formation to allow for cross section geometry of 2 x 3.4m lanes and 2 x 1.5m surfaced shoulders with 0.5m outer shoulder strips.

In Phase two of the KafueMazabuka Road covering a stretch of 33.5 starts from Chikankata turnoff to Mazabuka General Hospital and is being done by China State Engineering Corporation.