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Stornoway Maintenance and Tasman Council work together

Posted on 07 July, 2010 in Stornoway Maintenance News

Stornoway Maintenance is Tasmania’s leading supplier of road network maintenance services, providing long term asset management, routine maintenance and minor capital works services to State agencies, local councils and private clients. In recent times, Stornoway has been assisting Tasman Council with road maintenance budget development and works programming for the 2010/11 financial year.

Tasman Council’s aim, with the assistance from Stornoway, is to improve delivery of service to ratepayers, while still addressing asset, safety and financial risk management.

Over the past 15 years, there has been a steady increase in the subdivision of coastal land in the Tasman region. This development has seen at times a 10-fold increase in traffic volumes and a change of use to many roads. With the standard of roads built not coping with the changing and growing use patterns, there has been pressure on Council to play catch up. Tourism has also increased significantly and with that, the expectations of the users of the roads.

As a result, it’s necessary to reassess the nature of road use and the risks associated with that use, together with the expectations of rate payers.

The first step in classifying roads is to establish a hierarchy of importance with the assistance of Stornoway. This hierarchy, along with road user safety, types of road users and traffic volumes must be used as the basis for budget allocation and work scheduling.

For more information on how Stornoway Maintenance can assist your asset maintenance needs, contact us here.

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