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It is one thing having to accept and deal with the electricity issues that we have in South Africa. It is another thing not understanding why various arms of government and the municipality cannot co-ordinate. My drive home recently took me 101 minutes and by the time I got home I heard people calling in on the radio and saying what a wonderful job the Outsurance people had done. The Outsurance people were certainly not around when I went through Sandton and they did not help me at all, and I cannot understand why it should be the job of a private initiative to try and resolve the traffic issues when there is load shedding.
If load shedding is as clinical as Eskom in the various departments claim it is, and everybody knows that a certain area is going to be cut off at 2pm, then why can’t the traffic police in those areas, who you will never see when there are terrible traffic delays, be co-ordinated to go to all the major intersections in that area at that time? In other words, if they are going to cut off the traffic to the heart of Sandton and the surrounding suburbs, which isn’t a great idea in the first place, considering our Stock Exchange and the major businesses in the country are based here, can’t they at least co-ordinate with the Metro Police and traffic officers as well as the JRA? How much effort would it take to send two traffic officers to each of the major intersections where the gridlock is likely to happen, and have them there before the traffic issues begin? Time is money and they are wasting an awful amount of productive time of the people of this country sitting in traffic, while the very people who are responsible for the traffic are never anywhere to be seen when the robots are all out due to load shedding!
Posted by Michael de Broglio on Tuesday 10-Feb-15
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Jolene said:
on Tuesday 17-Feb-15 09:03 AM
It took me 2 hours to drive home, it normally takes me about 30 minutes. It is absolutely ridiculous, I cant think that Eskom cant ATLEAST keep the electricity on during peak hour traffic.
Sarah said:
on Friday 13-Feb-15 03:07 PM
I agree with Juliet 100% this country is going down hill and knows nothing about service anymore.
Brenda Du Toit said:
on Friday 13-Feb-15 09:43 AM
When we drive home and the traffic lights are off there is no traffic cops that help the traffic to move they will rather sit at the office and do nothing to help
Sinead said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 03:35 PM
I love Juliet's comment. It's true but on the other hand, we have to put a little hope in this country otherwise it really will never improve - even though it isn't improving anyway...
Safia said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 12:05 PM
lol ,I would like to see that shirtless man,did he have a nice body? the country needs more of these type of people. some people fix the potholes themselves in their neighborhood, apparently it only costs 80 for the few kg of tar, In Chartwell(Fourways) the community got together , fixed the roads,they clean the streets once a month and patrol streets for criminals, that is how we should all live. as for the robots , solar powered robots would carry on working, i see few have been installed on Malibongwe but they still do not function!!!!!
Kaylee said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 11:47 AM
Over and above the traffic, what about the economy? The economy is going to be suffering as people are unproductive and I cannot even begin to imagine what the decrease in productivity is over the past two weeks.
Our government tells us that Eskom's issues are not a result of poor governmental management, what? Are you kidding me? Its a joke, a disgrace and another problem this country faces. Why would overseas investors give us a penny, we can't even manage our power resources.
The traffic, no comment. It's completely unbearable.
Juliet said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 11:44 AM
I don't know why you still get worked up about things in this country. The government does not give a damn, the police do not give a damn, the workers do not give a damn. Nothing is going to change or improve. End of story
Nicolle said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 09:23 AM
Ladies may be prepared to get stuck in traffic now as last week a young civilian who has been dubbed "South Africa's sexiest 'Traffic Cop'" and "Shirtless Saviour" hopped out of his car and directed traffic on a busy intersection with Jan Smuts Avenue.
Marisa said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 09:08 AM
Last week thursday there was a man that got out of his car and took his shirt off so he could guide the cars with it at the robot here on jan smuts and the metro also sat in the traffic but they did not even bother to get out and do what that man did and it is not even his job, it just shows that they are to lazy to do what they are supposed to do and then friday the beggers that got together and directed the traffic and did not even beg while doing it, so it just shows that people who dont have jobs or take time from their personal time to do this that they do a better job, and dont even get me started with eskom.. aparently eskom is running most of south africa with generators thats why we get load shedding so they could service the generators (i could be wrong but that is what i heard from an Eskom insider)
Liesl said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:51 AM
Perhaps our president needs to employ a "Minister of Common Sense" to oversee and guide the seriously lacking government institutions we having to deal with.
Helen said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:38 AM
Yes, did not see outsurance people for some time already. Anyway who cares in these chain: Metro department is busy rather collecting the fines then to send someone out to monitor the traffic. Such as chaos on the back roads when there is load shedding, better probably walking home from work then to drive the car! Anyway one day I thing last week Friday, on Jan Smuts when robots were out - homeless people on the road were directing the traffic, and this did work!! So the question is why if beggars can do this job, metro police can not!!!!
latoya said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:34 AM
Yesterday i was speaking to one of my friends who actually work at Eskom,and she says the reason for the load sheeding is they are building two more power stations that are worth millions so they do not have enough power to supply everyone so they giving a schudule for each area to try give everyone a chance to have power...They say the smallest countries take years to drop but seems like South Africa is gonna take a few months and yet its a big country...Its so sad what we got to go through...
Zindy said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:32 AM
I have to say, driving down Jan Smuts Avenue towards the M1 when the robots are out, I have seen normal civilians or even taxi drivers directing the traffic and doing a brilliant job. Taking time out of there day to help everyone else! The traffic cops are sitting on the side of the roads checking licences and licence disks. I think they should take initiative and help where they can in these situations. They getting paid after all.
Clare said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:30 AM
I wished this could happen all the time, when i walked in this morning i even said to the ladies if the Traffic copes could just handle the traffic well all the robots are out the Traffic wouldn't be so bad.
david said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:26 AM
Michael, you are labouring under the misconception that the traffic police are in fact traffic police.
they are not.
they are (corrupt) photographers & money collectors for the city of johannesburg.
nothing more, nothing less.
Sandra said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:22 AM
This country needs to plan things more efficiently because everything seems to be going wrong for us, and not only Eskom now, but the water supply as well. I agree with sending out metro to help , especially during the peak traffic when the lights are out, but they either have an excuse of a lack of funding or they are never ready for standby.
Lack of organization, planning as well as co-ordination in our Beauracracy.
Alexis said:
on Tuesday 10-Feb-15 08:21 AM
I was actually talking about this the other day with a friend. If they are going to deprove us of power then at least have the decency to put traffic cops at the robots to get traffic moving smoothly. The thing is though, you never see Metro there, it will always be OUTsurance. I wonder what we pay for some times
Johannesburg based attorney specializing in personal injury matters including Road Accident Fund claims and medical negligence matters. My interests include golf, reading and the internet and the way it is constantly developing. I have a passion for life and a desire for less stress!
