2.8 Maintenance
2.8.1 Achievements
- All authorities are on target for principal and non-principal road maintenance.
- 3 Transport Asset Management Plans (TAMPS) completed, 8 TAMPS drafted.
- All Greater Manchester Authorities have been successful in increasing the use of existing resources for programmed and preventative maintenance operations.
- Most Greater Manchester authorities have completed or are nearing completion of bridge strengthening programmes to ensure 40 tonne loading capacity on the entire Primary Route Network as per EU Regulations.
- Some authorities have used Prudential Borrowing to fund ‘Invest to Save’ to reduce trip claims.
2.8.2 Our issues and future priorities:
- To ensure that maintenance programmes continue to offer good value for money and meet the strategic aims of the Greater Manchester Maintenance Strategy
2.8.3 And to achieve these we will:
- Complete TAMPs in all authorities
- Continue to undertake bridge strengthening work in order to meet EU regulations
- Develop long term investment programmes demonstrating an optimum level of expenditure on headline intervention types for each asset group
- Use condition data and broader value management processes prior to political consideration of maintenance programmes.
- Review maintenance programmes annually, often to realign maintenance schemes with other highway improvement or construction activities
- Develop common approaches, for example to valuation, service levels (including replacements for the previous Best Value indicators), cost models and forecasting.