A deeper due diligence analysis on potentials of traffic growth should have taken place upstream prior to program design. Parts of the Roads and Bridges design were based on the assumption that traffic would increase due to projected population growth in the country. However, after five years of project implementation and another five years of post-compact period, neither the traffic nor the population have grown enough to meet such projections. As a result, the road usage has remained lighter than initially projected. MCC has been addressing this lesson by requiring extended constraint analyses and root cause analyses prior to project identification, area selection and implementation design. This helps reduce errors and produce more balanced assessments.
Lesson Learned