A RECENTLY completed road sealing and pavement project funded by Australian AID along the Madang-Lae highway is ready seeing major damages along several sections.
This section of the highway between Mipu bridge and Biribiri Mountain was completed over year ago with sealing the road painted nicely。 Motorists before the rainy season last year spoke highly of the remarkably sealed bitumen road with nice road markings。
However， nature had its own course with rains in the last three months causing severe damages to parts of the newly sealed road.
Rains experienced in the mountains of Madang has caused roads along the Madang-Ramu highway is very bad state some sections experiencing faults and even road sinking in several parts due to unstable landmass in the area。
One sections near the junction at Negeri had seen road works done by the contractor in very bad shape.
Workmen from road contractor R & Sons Construction are currently doing maintenance work on some of the damaged sections
Picture: A recently sealed road is already seeing faults and road surface sinking in some parts. Picture by James G. Kila