Joburg takes a short-term approach to its traffic light crisis by recruiting traffic directors, but permanent solutions are still necessary.
Johannesburg’s recruitment of traffic directors is a step toward addressing the recurring traffic light failures due to load shedding and vandalism.It’s sadly an all too familiar sight. You are on the way to the office or on the school run in the morning or wearily making your way back home in the evening and the traffic is backed up as far as you can see.
Having JMPD officials manning these broken traffic lights at major intersections is a rarity, while Outsurance pointsmen can only be stretched so far.Unemployed “entrepreneurs” out for a quick buck have taken to directing traffic, but that is a recipe for disaster as it often results in people either failing to trust them or ignoring them altogether.
Admittedly, forking out the roughly R70 million to repair the city’s broken and vandalised traffic lights is not an option right now.
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