The Witness

The Witness: "Traffic situation in Pmb"
Traffic situation in Pmb
02 Mar 2009
Pawan Niranjan Bhundoo

It is now becoming a matter of urgency that something be done to alleviate the serious congestion of traffic coming from the Northern suburbs into the city. There is just no way that is flowing soomthly anymore. Traffic has increased drastically over the past few years and this has added to the congestion problem. I commend the traffic department trying the "3 lane thing" in the afternoons. Unfortunately we need something to happen in the mornings as hundreds of people are getting late for work everyday. We are in almost or maybe worse off than the Jhb gridlock situation. Talk of widening Church Street bridge and also cutting a road from the Claridge area to Midlands Mall/Cascades area has been going on for years. Somehow, Hayfields(New England Rd) bridge got the priority and yet that traffic situation was not even half the magnitude of that of Old Greytown Rd, New Greytown Rd, Ohrtmann Rd etc. It is now becoming very streesful every morning trying to map which route may be shorter, sometimes haing to switch your route en route as you get to a point and there is absolutely no movement. Come on Roads and traffic department. This is a situation that needs urgent attention. I would like to see a published response to this letter from any of the parties mentioned.