Akim of West Kazakhstan region: "All roads declared for repair in Uralsk need to be handed over before the cold weather»

In the plan for major repairs and reconstruction in Uralsk for 2020, 41 roads were announced. In fact, there is no asphalt pavement on 9 streets by the end of the summer season. Two roads have not been repaired at all due to lack of funding.

What is the reason for the slow pace of road works in the regional center and what measures are taken by the city authorities to change the situation? The Governor of the region discussed these problematic issues and ways to solve them together with the heads of relevant departments.

A meeting on ensuring high-quality and timely repair work on roads in the region and Uralsk under the chairmanship of WKO akim Gali Iskaliev was held on September 15 in the regional akimat.

According to the acting head of the Department of passenger transport and highways Bauyrzhan Aitmagambetov, the regional center plans to overhaul and reconstruct 41 roads in 2020.

To date, due to lack of funding, the contractor "Aidana" LLP has suspended repair work on 1 object – this is a project for the reconstruction of the road along the street. Light (from the street. Go to Alash street). Another object – major repairs of S. Lazo street (from Barayev street to PDP-1) - received a refund to the budget due to the fact that the contractor Who won the tender, shamshyn LLP, did not start road works on time.

For 4 projects, all work has now been completed-this is the average repair of Zhambyl street (from Aitaliev street to Ruzheynikov street, contractor "TZhS" LLP); major repairs of Zhambyl street. Elizarova (From D. Nurpeisova street to Zhaiyk street, contractor "DSK Priority" LLP); ashkhabadskaya street (from Musina street to Lokomotivnaya street, "Anush Kurylys" LLP); capital repairs of 8 Martha street (from Pugacheva to Nurpeisova street, "TZhS" LLP).

Aitmagambetov noted that contractors are working very slowly on 6 roads – they have completed only 8 to 20% of the planned work. So far, astrador LLP has not started work on the recycling of the highway on the street. Free (in the village of Zachagansk, from Zhangir Khan street to the final stop). Workers of LLP "RAZAK" has barely begun to prepare the base for filling with sand-gravel mixture on the road Polotnova Zhaksygunova street (from street of Ashgabat to St Kurmangalieva) and Khusainov street (from the street to Mukhit str. Bayou-Waterfront).Iskom LLP has also just started to make earthworks for the Foundation of the road made of crushed stone and PGS on Shevtsova street (from the street Orenburg to Biyashev street).Together with the staff of anti-corruption experts of management of passenger transport and highways went to Reid road projects on public complaints and came to the conclusion that this year, possible failure of the reconstruction of the track on the street Zhumaliyeva and arrangement of access roads to the school №4 on the street and Zatonnaya str. Yaroslavl. The contractor for both projects – kazstroygarant LLP-did not conduct any construction work on these roads at the time of the inspection.

As the head of the road Department noted, the main reasons for the delay in road construction are two facts: a number of contractors have collected too much work and are not coping with it, the second point is the lack of funding from the budget for repair work on some of the projects.

Deputy mayor of Uralsk Askhat kulbayev explained to the head of the region that he personally met with representatives of contractors for the repair of urban roads.

- We wanted to initiate the issue of termination of contracts with contractors that allow slowing down the pace of road work, but during the negotiations we decided to wait. Now a number of contractors have mobilized, the situation is improving, " kulbayev said. – We additionally plan to bypass all roads with representatives of the Prosecutor's office, and the issue of complete withdrawal of contracts remains relevant for those road companies that will not make progress in their work.

Bauyrzhan Aitmagambetov also drew the attention of the head of the region to the fact that road companies at the height of the construction season had problems with the supply of bitumen, which made it difficult for them to perform repairs. So, even after full payment of the cost of bitumen. The following companies could not receive it in time: Tobi LLP-payment in the amount of 39.3 million tenge, supplier (trader) AD invest LLP; Uniserv LLP-payment in the amount of 42.5 million tenge, supplier of MONTAZH Engineering LLP; MONTAZH engineering LLP-payment in the amount of 42.6 million tenge, supplier of RSU TRANS LLP»; Armstroy LLP-payment in the amount of 22.6 million tenge, supplier of AD invest LLP; Aidana LLP-payment in the amount of 86 million tenge, supplier of Limb2 LLP.

It was the lack of bitumen that caused the contractor companies to fail to complete the work volumes stated on the schedule on time and to use the allocated money. The speaker stressed that the situation with a shortage of bitumen threatens to repeat in September. This is also fraught with delays in the schedule of repairs and a decrease in the pace of development of budget funds allocated under the announced tenders.

The head of the regional branch Of the center for quality of road assets Sanzhar Kabyshev told those present that as a result of road inspection for the quality of road works carried out in Uralsk and WKO, they revealed a number of violations of asphalt laying technology.

So, on Orakbayev street (contractor – Iskom LLP) on the site from Abulkhair Khan street to Zavokzalny puffin street on the recently laid asphalt, the top layer is already peeling.. there are no drains around the manholes on the roadway.

On the street the Dzhanybek research station (from Gagarina street to the magician. "Stroybat") the contractor "Shamshyn" LLP could not provide an act of work on the arrangement of the roadbed and laying the PGS under the base of the road.

Kabyshev noted that the contractors took control of the comments of the Center's employees and began to eliminate them.

Now under special control of this Department is Moldagulova street, which was overhauled in 2019 by Birlik LLP. The contractor committed a number of violations during the repair work. As a result, he was issued an order to eliminate road flaws. In may 2020, the center for road assets conducted monitoring on the fact of elimination of these violations and found that the company "Birlik" has not yet eliminated the defects – it has not replaced the top layer of the road surface. Instead, patching was started on Moldagulova street. According to the results of the last monitoring, the top layer of asphalt on this street has been replaced – on an area of more than 6 thousand square meters.

- What system solutions are needed to ensure that our contractors do not violate the technology of road works? - said akim Gali Iskaliev.

- At the moment, many sections where road works are being carried out are under weak control by engineering services, - Sanzhar Kabyshev explained. - Because of this, violations appear, they are primarily associated with non-compliance with the technology of laying asphalt concrete pavement or using low-quality construction materials, violation of the dosage of road materials mixtures.

Let's look at the situation more harshly – not only contractors, but also technical supervision companies should be held responsible if defects or violations of road construction technology are revealed during the repair or acceptance of the road into operation, - said the Governor of WKO.

- I see the current situation as follows: road companies and technical supervision firms have gained a lot of work, and now they do not have time to work out all the declared volumes. The same technical supervision specialists should check the objects under their control on a daily basis, and if they have several objects scattered throughout the region?! I believe that unscrupulous technical supervisors should be deprived of licenses if facts of gross violations of technical conditions during road works are revealed. We also need to pay more attention to road companies: those who break schedules and do not complete their work before the onset of bad weather should be excluded from the list of bona fide contractors. Soon the rains will start, and we have a number of projects with a 10% completion rate. On average, construction volumes on all roads should be 70%. If you have any problems, please let us know. Bituima not – let's solve it. All the declared roads need to be completed this year.

Lyudmila Kalashnikova,

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