EFFECTS OF DELAYED MAINTENANCE ON PAVEMENT CONDITION ON SOME SELECTED ROADS (LOKOJA METROPOLIS AS CASE STUDY)

Abstract

ABSTRACT The project is aimed at addressing and evolving positive measure of timely and prompt maintenance programmes for Lokoja roads. Due to untimely maintenance by the concerned road maintenance authority these roads have developed into a very bad state hereby posing death traps to motorists. To address the problem, reconnaissance survey, condition surveys and site inspections were carried out. The present maintenance cost for Adankolo Ring Road was calculated as N2,587,414.08, Ganaja Lokoja Road N2,496,129.00. Present maintenance cost for Nataco - Kaduna Junction road was calculated as N8,013,945.60 and the present maintenance cost for Aliyu Obaje Road was calculated as N529,813.44 and that of Government House Road was given as N2,272,448.40. The sum total maintenance cost was calculated as N15,899,750.52. Postponed or delayed maintenance will result not only in economic loss of hard earned resources expended in the road infrastructure but would also increase the number of accidents and to the need for expensive reconstruction to restore the asset to original standard or shape. v