Major road repairs are required in the US State of Michigan following heavy rains and extensive flooding.
July 3, 2017
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Major road repairs are required in the US State of Michigan following heavy rains and extensive flooding. In all the repairs will cost US$90 million. Damage to roads and bridges in Midland County alone will cost U$13 million to repair.
Heavy rains across East Africa have caused major problems to road links for the region. The rains have resulted in roads being washed away in rural areas, while urban areas have also suffered badly. Storm drainage in many areas has proven unable to cope. Kenya’s busy capital Nairobi has seen roads that are normally heavily congested suddenly resemble rivers, with water washing away vehicles and various structures.
Key rural road links in Romania are to benefit from repairs to address flooding damage. Heavy flooding in 2010 caused extensive damage to many of Romania’s rural roads. The EU is providing €155 million to tackle the repairs, which will be managed by the Payments Agency for Rural Development and Fishing (APDRP). The agency will offer non-refundable grants for 144 projects intended to repair and upgrade roads and bridges infrastructure.
Serious flooding in Southern Thailand has caused extensive damage to roads and highways. In a bid to restore these transport links the country’s Highways Department's Highways Maintenance Management Bureau has set a budget close to US$103 million.
An extensive programme of works will be required to tackle flood damage to roads and bridges in Peru. The country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications believes that US$2.66 billion will be required to tackle the problems right across the country. However funding sources for the necessary repair work have yet to be finalised, with the added complication that some of the damaged links are operated under concessions while others are not. An estimated 3,231km of Peru’s national road network has suffered s
