Structural decay: Crumbling bridges: M2 closure adds to Joburg commuter stress By Lelethu Tonisi
About 6% of Johannesburg’s 902 bridges are in good condition. The rest, according to the Johannesburg Roads Agency and Mayor Herman Mashaba, are in poor or very poor condition, posing a threat to the thousands of motorists, commuters and pedestrians who use them daily.
According to the Bridge Visual Condition Index, 78.38% of bridges — a total of 707 of the 902 bridges in the city — are in a generally poor condition.In announcing the closure of the M2 bridge recently, Mashaba said that in 2017, when the DA took over as an administration, it carried out an assessment of the status of the city’s bridges.
Motorist Carla Ho said she now had to drive into town to take the detour. “This is scary because I don’t like driving in town.” Makhuba said the JRA had an Infrastructure Protection Unit, but this often worked in isolation to other policing efforts.
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