current contract there is a response time in dealing with emergencies of one hour from notification to thecontractor (LCR) to the actual attendance on site.<strong>Highway</strong> Defects to be repaired or made safe within 24 hourshttp://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/section.asp?docId=33860.Listing includes:* All signs which have fallen into the highway or are in an unsafe condition.* Traffic signals:- damage which makes signals electrically unsafe.- knocked down signal heads in the highway.- two red lamps failed on a single approach.- junction all out - no signals operating.- signals stuck on red.- signal head twisted/pointed in the wrong direction.- failure of temporary signals.Norfolk County Council (UK)Department of Planning and Transportation <strong>Highway</strong>s <strong>Maintenance</strong> Plan 2004/05Appendix 6: Reactive <strong>Maintenance</strong>- Objectives, <strong>Standards</strong> and responsehttp://www.norfolk.gov.uk/transport/highways/maintenance/maintenanceplan/pdfs/Appendix6.pdf.1.1: P1 or P2 orders deal with category 1 defects (24-hour response). Our response to attending defects is as follows:-- P1 Emergency Works Order - Defects which could lead to a significant risk of injury or damage to property.Ganger or Contractor on site within 1½ hours either to effect repair or make safe through signing, guarding andlighting.-- P2 Priority Works Orders - Ganger or Contractor on site between 1½ hours and seven days.1.2: Defects and Situations Warranting Emergency Works Order (P1). Defects which could lead to a significant riskof injury or damage to property [include]: Dangerous potholes in heavily trafficked A, B or C road particularly where traffic is fast moving whichcannot be dealt with in 24 hours.Obstructions of the highway - debris on the carriageway - unprotected or unlit equipment on roads andverges.Broken slabs in heavily pedestrianised locations.Road accidents - clean up- make safe damaged signs/other items.Collapse of road or verge.Damaged street furniture (e.g. leaning/fallen signs, pedestrian safety fencing).Note. The action to be taken will consist of carrying out permanent works where possible or make safe by carryingout appropriate works or erecting such signs, barriers, cones and lamps as are required.1.3: Defects and Situations Warranting Priority Works Orders (P2) [include]:Pot-holes which are judged not to require urgent attention as defects which could lead to a significant riskor injury or damage to property but need attention before the next order can be placed.Damaged stop/give way signs, bridge height signs.Ontario - Minimum <strong>Maintenance</strong> <strong>Standards</strong> for Municipal <strong>Highway</strong>s - The Regulationhttp://www.canlii.org/on/laws/regu/2002r.239/20040802/whole.html.Scroll to: Signs 11. (1) If any sign of a type listed in subsection (2) is illegible, improperly oriented or missing, theminimum standard is to deploy resources as soon as practicable after becoming aware of the fact to repair or replacethe sign. O. Reg. 239/02, s. 11 (1). (2): This section applies to the following types of signs: checkerboard; curve signwith advisory speed tab; do not enter; one way; school zone speed limit; stop; stop ahead; stop ahead, new; trafficsignal ahead, new; two-way traffic ahead; wrong way; yield; yield ahead; yield ahead, new. O. Reg. 239/02, s. 11(2).Scroll to: Traffic Control Signal Systems 13. (1) If a traffic control signal system is defective in any way describedin subsection (2), the minimum standard is to deploy resources as soon as practicable after becoming aware of thedefect to repair the defect or replace the defective component of the traffic control signal system. O. Reg. 239/02, s.13 (1). (3) Despite subsection (1) and paragraph 8 of subsection (2), if the posted speed of all approaches to theintersection or location of the non-functioning signal lamp or pedestrian control indication is less than 80 kilometresper hour and the signal that is not functioning is a green or a pedestrian "walk" signal, the minimum standard is torepair or replace the defective component by the end of the next business day. O. Reg. 239/02, s. 13 (3).6
Ontario – “Minimum <strong>Maintenance</strong> <strong>Standards</strong> for Municipal <strong>Highway</strong>s, A.K.A. Roads”By Don Payne, Chair, Federation of Ontario Cottagers Associations Roads Advisory Group, 2003http://www.foca.on.ca/Infobase/Roads/minmaintenance.htm.When portions of provincial highways were downloaded to municipalities a few years ago, municipalities found thatthey were faced with more roadway to maintain without adequate provincial grants to do so. In addition, they foundthat they were saddled with liability insurance costs for those roads. In order to better address the liability costs, anumber of attempts to standardize road maintenance issues were made. On Nov. 1, 2002 “Minimum <strong>Maintenance</strong><strong>Standards</strong> for Municipal <strong>Highway</strong>s” came into being as Regulation 239/02 of the new Municipal Act.7
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