I am sure there cannot be too many people who write as much about an intersection as I do, but when you get to pass it every day, you take a keen interest in it, and it seems to be that it is going to be open for normal business from Tuesday, 23 March 2010, which is really going to be tremendously exciting. There is construction all along William Nicol and Fourways is rapidly becoming the next Sandton, but if this intersection can be improved, and possibly at a later stage, additional off-ramps to be made off the highway to Main Road, the current traffic problems could largely become a thing of the past.

Perhaps I am being overly optimistic, but I expect at least 5 to 10 minutes to be chopped off the daily journey, and there is no doubt that the majority of traffic jams, excluding those that are caused by robots out of order during the heavy rain season, will be eliminated. If nothing else, the majority of the traffic jams have been precisely because of the construction taking place – and so when it ends, things are certainly going to be looking up! Whether one travels past Sandton or wherever one goes, one sees cranes, buildings being erected, bridges being constructed, roads