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Beitbridge embarks on a $1,5M road rehabilitation programme
01 May 2012 at 22:42hrs | Views
Beitbridge Town Council has embarked on a $1,5 million road rehabilitation programme.
The town secretary, Dr Sipho Singo, said the local authority has in its 2012 budget set aside funds to tar major roads in Dulibadzimu and the medium density area.
Some of the funds have been sourced from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara).
"We have started preliminary works on the rehabilitation of our major roads and our engineering department is looking into that. We intend to tar a 2km stretch of the Mashavire-Shule Shule road as well as the road linking the newly established medium density area and the town centre," said Dr Singo.
"We have also just completed tarring the Mashakada-Mashavire road in Dulibadzimu, which was previously inaccessible while plans are also under way to construct new gravel roads that are traversable in the medium density and Hlalani Kuhle suburbs.
"If funds permit, we intend to encircle the entire town with tarred roads to improve accessibility."
Dr Singo said in the next phase, they would embark on the tarring of the Shule Shule-Dulibadzimu bus terminus stretch.
He said the council has purchased its own equipment for road maintenance.
"Roads and infrastructure development are critical elements in any urban set up and as a local authority, we want to see our town growing to a municipality.
"We also have a challenge of trucks finding their way into the central business district resulting in them damaging our roads hence we intend to construct a bypass leading to the border post, which the heavy vehicles would use so that they don't continue causing damage on our roads," said Dr Singo.
He said the bulk of their budget was channelled towards major developmental projects. The town secretary also challenged residents to pay their bills to speed up the implementation of major projects in the border town.
"We urge residents and the business community to continue supporting us through making timeous payments of rates and service charges. As council, we have the capacity and the equipment to implement projects," he said.
The local authority has also embarked on a massive greening project aimed at sprucing up the image of the border town.
"We are working on several projects to uplift the face of our town taking into cognisance that we are a border town, which in essence is the shop window of the country and that includes the greening of our town and right now we are planting trees from the border post right up to Masvingo turn-off so that we regenerate the face of Beitbridge and attract more tourists," said Dr Singo.
"Beitbridge is the face of the country hence it should reflect the beauty of the country."
He said they had since cleared some piece of land at the round-about near the border post where they intend to put some lawn.
"Our objective is to green the entire highway leading to the border post and we are using budgeted funds," said Dr Singo.
The town secretary, Dr Sipho Singo, said the local authority has in its 2012 budget set aside funds to tar major roads in Dulibadzimu and the medium density area.
Some of the funds have been sourced from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara).
"We have started preliminary works on the rehabilitation of our major roads and our engineering department is looking into that. We intend to tar a 2km stretch of the Mashavire-Shule Shule road as well as the road linking the newly established medium density area and the town centre," said Dr Singo.
"We have also just completed tarring the Mashakada-Mashavire road in Dulibadzimu, which was previously inaccessible while plans are also under way to construct new gravel roads that are traversable in the medium density and Hlalani Kuhle suburbs.
"If funds permit, we intend to encircle the entire town with tarred roads to improve accessibility."
Dr Singo said in the next phase, they would embark on the tarring of the Shule Shule-Dulibadzimu bus terminus stretch.
He said the council has purchased its own equipment for road maintenance.
"We also have a challenge of trucks finding their way into the central business district resulting in them damaging our roads hence we intend to construct a bypass leading to the border post, which the heavy vehicles would use so that they don't continue causing damage on our roads," said Dr Singo.
He said the bulk of their budget was channelled towards major developmental projects. The town secretary also challenged residents to pay their bills to speed up the implementation of major projects in the border town.
"We urge residents and the business community to continue supporting us through making timeous payments of rates and service charges. As council, we have the capacity and the equipment to implement projects," he said.
The local authority has also embarked on a massive greening project aimed at sprucing up the image of the border town.
"We are working on several projects to uplift the face of our town taking into cognisance that we are a border town, which in essence is the shop window of the country and that includes the greening of our town and right now we are planting trees from the border post right up to Masvingo turn-off so that we regenerate the face of Beitbridge and attract more tourists," said Dr Singo.
"Beitbridge is the face of the country hence it should reflect the beauty of the country."
He said they had since cleared some piece of land at the round-about near the border post where they intend to put some lawn.
"Our objective is to green the entire highway leading to the border post and we are using budgeted funds," said Dr Singo.
Source - TC
