Pothole repairs underway, residents urged to log road defects

Ward 115 councillor Mark van Merwe received many calls from Fourways residents about the potholes in Campbell and Inchanga roads. He said the potholes were slowly growing bigger which left residents concerned about road safety.

Residents in Fourways have reached out to Ward 115 councillor, Mark van Merwe, regarding the increasingly concerning state of Campbell and Inchanga roads.

He said he heeded the call and sent through requests to Johannesburg Roads Agency to come and start repairing the potholes, some of which took about five months while others began to appear due to the recent wet weather.

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“Within a few days, they had done a full assessment of Campbell and Inchanga and highlighted with red markers all the issues. They have within a week started at the bottom of Inchanga and will work their way up to Campbell to repair potholes missed by JRA.”

Van Merwe said they would take about a week or two to complete.

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Khayalethu Gqibitole the JRA acting head of department from regional operations stated that the repairs started from March 18. He said teams are actually patching the road instead of repairing individual potholes in order to preserve the life of the road.

He said the delays in repairing potholes are due to backlogs that developed attending to flooding emergencies and repairs caused by flooding as emergencies are prioritised.

‘The JRA attends to all road defects discovered by JRA Inspectors when doing their routine inspections but residents are urged to assist JRA by logging all road defects including potholes using the attached channels of logging defects. The JRA has also been working closely with the Cllr regarding the defects mentioned,” said Gqibitole.

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