Gov’t: Some 200 road works to be expected in 2023

A total of 204 applications for road works next year have so far been received, a government advisory body has recently announced. This is a decrease of 29% year-over-year.

Yesterday, the Road Work Coordination Division of the Traffic Superior Committee held a press conference to announce relevant information.

Of all these planned road projects, 40 will concern major roads and have expected delivery periods longer than 30 days, which is a decrease of 34% year-over-year.

In addition, the division boasted it had managed to combine 111 road projects in the first 11 months of this year and in doing so had prevented repetitive work in the same location.

The most prominent road work in Macau will be the construction of the fourth Macau-Taipa bridge. Other major works will be the bridge connecting New Urban Zone A and the Macau Peninsula, the construction of another overpass at the Pearl of the Orient Roundabout, drainage pipelines in several locations and the rearrangement of the road network around the Olympic Aquatic Centre in Taipa, for which a previous rearrangement had only concluded some years ago.

On the other hand, the Transport Bureau (DSAT) boasted that the smart Road Work Management System (RMS) had been undergoing constant improvement. About 72% of the received provisional traffic measures applications relied on the RMS. The DSAT will strive to expand the scope of RMS use and in turn receive 85% of applications through the RMS.

The DSAT, meanwhile, will continue hosting industry targeted seminars on the RMS to improve application efficiency. AL