Zero tolerance?

The Witness: "Zero tolerance?"
ON Thursday, July 30, I phoned the traffic department wanting to speak to Kenneth Chetty, but someone just put the phone down. Thirty minutes later, I phoned again and was told he was in a meeting and would get back to me.

By the end of the day, I had received no response.

Every morning at Kenilworth Road, law-abiding motorists are severely inconvenienced by inconsiderate taxis and other motorists who don’t bother to join the queue. They just cut across, drive on the oncoming side of the road, go to the front of the queue and dart across traffic coming from Northdale.

The traffic department has, on occasion, done a sting there. Then they disappeared and it all begins again. Then there was a South African Police Services officer who stopped and I think ticketed the transgressors, but he then disappeared too. Now the taxis are back making merry.

I am making an impassioned plea to the traffic department: please assist us law-abiding motorists.

Let’s act and save lives now. This is the province of zero tolerance and 100% compliance, but this is beingseverely compromised.

KRISHNAN NAIDOO
Belfort Estate, Pietermaritzburg