Brazil needs US$14 billion to recover highways

Brazil needs R$72.3 (US$14) billion to recover its road network with restorations and reconstructions, according to the CNT (National Transport Confederation) 2022 survey released on Wednesday (Nov. 9).

The document also reveals that this year there will be an unnecessary consumption of 1.1 billion liters of diesel fuel because of the poor sidewalk quality in the country’s network.

The cost passed on to transporters is R$4.9 billion.

110,333 km of roads in Brazil were analyzed, of which 87,095 km were public roads, and 23,238 km were concessions.

The entire paved network of federal highways and the main stretches of state highways were evaluated.

The amount needed to reach the amount presented by CNT is 1,100% bigger than the entire budget approved for the DNIT for 2022, which is the autarchy responsible for maintaining and reconstructing federal public highways.

The public roads were evaluated as regular, bad, or terrible in 75.3% of its network.

Excellent or good was 24.7%.

The roads under concession were well evaluated in 69% of the cases; 31% of the network under private management was considered regular, bad, or terrible.

GENERAL RESULT

Summing what was surveyed among all the highways, the general state of the Brazilian network presents a regular, bad or terrible state in 66% of its roads; 34% of the roads are considered excellent or good.

Regarding the sidewalk, 55.5% of the analyzed network presents problems, and 44.5% is in satisfactory condition.

The percentage of totally destroyed sidewalks was 0.6%.

The signaling considered regular, bad, or terrible was 60.7% of the roads; 39.3% were excellent or good.

On the other hand, 63.9% of the roads have some kind of problem.

The main complaints are simple lanes (85.6%), lack of shoulder (44.6%), and 29% of the stretches with dangerous curves having no signaling.

The survey also identified that the sidewalk conditions increase the operational cost for transportation by 33.1%, which reflects directly on the cost of the products transported to the consumer.

With information from Poder360