P34m goes to waste in Boatle-Gaborone road

Blasting activities along the new dual Boatle- Gaborone dual carriageway PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Blasting activities along the new dual Boatle- Gaborone dual carriageway PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Boatle-Game City road that was resurfaced two years ago will be destroyed to give way for a new dual carriageway that is under construction, Mmegi has learnt.

The old road was resealed and had shoulders widened at approximately P34.4 million. The Gaborone-Boatle Road has reached its design life and there is need for its reconstruction to address the pavement distress and also accommodate the current traffic population.

 “The recent maintenance intervention to do asphalt overlay was to increase the life-span by another five to six years because at the time a budget had not been secured for the long-term plan to reconstruct the road,” says a response from the roads department.

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