Every year council falls $16m further behind in its ability to maintain the roads.
Here’s a way to understand what it costs to not fix them.
- Resealing roads costs around $7 per m2
- Rehabilitating roads can be in the range of $30-80 per m2 depending upon the severity and extent of the rehabilitation required to provide adequate pavement strength.
- Reconstructing roads can range from $100 – 200 per m2 or even up as much as $400-500 per m2 in the worst examples.
If roads aren’t regularly resealed then they will need to be rehabilitated, if not rehabilitated then reconstructed. The cost escalates. The likelihood of the work being done diminishes. The state of the roads worsen.
It’s not a pretty picture.