Action needed

The Witness: "Action needed"
IT must be two years or more that the Boughton bridge has supposedly been undergoing repairs. Do you think 2009 will see the start, let alone completion? The red tape surrounding the area has long since become threadbare and untidy, and traffic is still being diverted around the area without any sign of workmen or machinery. A lot of time and money was spent in planting the banks with grass and other plants, but do we have to wait for the bridge to collapse and for someone to be injured before something is done?

The old building in College Road, opposite Maritzburg College, has been taken over by vandals and the trees destroyed by fire. This would be an ideal building to convert to a restaurant with rolling lawns down to the Duzi, but instead it is fast becoming a slum area. What are the plans for this building? Does anyone care?