'Maganda pa yung daan, sinisira na?': DPWH says its 'preventive maintenance'
For the public, road construction can be an eyesore as well as a source of headache due to the traffic congestion it brings, especially when it's fresh in the memory that it's just been built and once again being repaved.
During deliberations of a Senate finance subcommittee on the proposed budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the agency explained that this is part of preventive maintenance and reconstruction. (Video Courtesy of Senate of the Philippines)
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During deliberations of a Senate finance subcommittee on the proposed budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the agency explained that this is part of preventive maintenance and reconstruction. (Video Courtesy of Senate of the Philippines)
READ: https://mb.com.ph/2023/10/10/maganda-pa-yung-daan-sinisira-na-dpwh-says-its-preventive-maintenance
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00:00 I just want to ask you how to avoid the comments of ordinary people who are going crazy. In Bisaya, the crazy ones are the ones who are murmuring. They say, "What is this DPWH?" The road is still strong, beautiful, and is being built.
00:27 And the damaged roads are not being repaired.
00:31 We've been questioning that.
00:35 Even I ask myself, "Why did they build this road that is still okay, but damaged to be repaired?"
00:42 And the road in Saunahan is really damaged. That's what we should fix.
00:49 I know it's a small thing, but it's irritating for the public to see that there are people who are going to comment, "Why is the government spending money on this? It's not damaged, it's being built, and it's being repaired, but the damaged roads are not being repaired."
01:08 How can we avoid that?
01:10 It's a technical issue. It is actually preventive maintenance and reconstruction that we are talking about here.
01:24 There is a point when the road starts to deteriorate, and it would be more economical to undertake preventive maintenance.
01:42 The pavement starts to deteriorate, so it would be more economical to repave it at that point in time so that we can save the base and sub-base.
01:53 We will not move the base and sub-base. It's just the pavement that we're going to replace.
01:59 For the roads that are already deteriorated, the base and sub-base will be reconstructed. It will take more rehabilitation and reconstruction.
02:15 That's all we can explain in layman's terms. That's what we're doing.
02:21 We have to prevent the further deterioration of the sub-base and base before anything else.
02:32 We're just going to replace the running course.
02:37 The roads that are already damaged, the worst ones, that has to be reconstructed.
02:44 The issue that Senator Bato raised, I think I was a law student when I wrote a letter to the editor of the inquiry.
02:53 I think it was the time of Vihilar. I saw in Marikina that the road was already damaged.
03:01 The answer was also a very technical answer. It's hard to believe.
03:11 It goes against the inputs of our senses.
03:18 You can see it with your eyes. It's fine. It's going to tell you that the road is already damaged.
03:22 And yet, you can see that it's already damaged. It's not that it's not being acted on.
03:26 So, this shows the different levels of vigilance among your people, Secretary.
03:32 Why? Can you explain? Don't you have a circular to tell everybody that this is the flowchart?
03:38 This is how it is. Do it. Check it.
03:41 So that the practice or the reality does not go against the theory that you are giving us?
03:47 The computer system that is actually monitored the conditions of the roads and bridges all over the country.
04:02 And this is the basis for the program that we are implementing right now.
04:08 We now have a good inventory of the conditions of the roads and the bridges as well, Your Honor.
04:18 We have a pavement management system which tells us actually what is now the condition of the road,
04:30 the condition of the bridges, and what kind of intervention we have to undertake.
04:37 It's a little more systematic now at this time.
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