FOR months, Berea residents have been voicing their frustrations about the lack of proper signage on Mazisi Kunene Road – residents have been appealing to the eThekwini Municipality to put a sign up that redirects heavy-duty trucks away from the steep road as trucks are continuously breaking down on the road causing a backlog of traffic and frustrated road users. The Berea Mail reached out to the eThekwini Municipality about the issue, enquiring about whether this problem has been addressed.

According to the eThekwini Municipality’s spokesperson Gugu Sisilana, multiple residents have reached out with complaints about this issue. “We have put up mass restriction signage on Mazisi Kunene Road at Charles Strachan and at Maze Road to prevent heavy vehicles from going up this hill from both sides. We also included the ‘Bayhead’ destination on the direction board at Tollgate, directing vehicles back onto the freeway.”

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Sisislana says that apart from the signs mentioned above, signs will also be erected on the freeway to direct drivers through Warwick and Sydney Road and on to Bayhead. “We have also requested SANRAL to include the Bayhead destination on their direction signs for the EB Cloete interchange upgrade. Drivers travelling from the west are to be directed south onto the N2 and then to the M7.”

“The tenders for the signs to be installed have already been advertised, and it is anticipated that these signs would be installed by the end of December 2023. The installation date of the signage by SANRAL is not known at this time,” said the spokesperson.

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