Millions spent on road expansion in Ermelo near Boxer Centre
The scope of work entailed the upgrading of OR Tambo Street by constructing two additional lanes from the N11 traffic lights up until about 200m after the intersection of Albert Luthuli Road, as well as to construct a traffic circle at the intersection of OR Tambo Street and Mandela Drive.
WESSELTON – Msukaligwa Local Municipality hired a contractor to undertake Wesselton’s Ext 3 road extension on March 29.
At the time, the municipality’s spokesperson, Mandla Zwane, said the project’s objectives were to improve the local area’s road infrastructure and ensure that traffic congestion was decreased.
The scope of work entailed the upgrading of OR Tambo Street by constructing two additional lanes from the N11 traffic lights up until about 200m after the intersection of Albert Luthuli Road, as well as to construct a traffic circle at the intersection of OR Tambo Street and Mandela Drive.
The Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG)-funded project, with a projected cost of R7.7m, was scheduled to be finished on August 22.
But based on the size of a large excavation and the road cones around it, the road near the Boxer Centre does not appear to have been the focus of a R7.7m improvement.
According to locals, it did not take long before municipal or contract employees had to start digging up and mending potholes after the road was completed.
With materials used for the road heaped next to it on the pavement, it appears that the recent rainfall has called a halt to the road’s repairs.
With only one lane available, drivers are compelled to squeeze past one another.
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