I take issue with Des Head’s (Highway Mail week ending 2 July 2021) on increasing the speed limit on Inanda Road.
I am a recent arrival in Hillcrest, an emigrant from the ever-deteriorating Westville. When we arrived here some six years ago, indeed, Inanda Road was a new four-lane highway with 200 street lamps on the centre island, five sets of robots at various intersections, good armco barriers in place and, of course, the 60km p/h speed limit.
Now, we have a road with at least two lovingly tended crosses on the verges, armco barriers damaged all along the road, beggar belief, robots at various intersections that have had to be replaced and I gave up counting the centre island lights that have had to be replaced (>17 at my last count).
The Highway Mail should put its best investigative reporter on to this scandalous story, to properly numerate the accidents, deaths and costs of all the replacement of road furniture that has been done, and indeed remains in places to do. Costs which one supposes we the rate payers have to pay for. Properly expose the needless carnage for what it is.
An increase of the speed limit to 80km p/h cannot be the answer.
It is the government’s duty (not the Municipality’s) to keep its citizens safe. We should demand proper policing and monitoring of the speedsters, proper penalties enforced, unlicensed drivers caught and punished, drunken drivers imprisoned and have unroadworthy and unlicensed vehicles removed from our roads.
Once the above is in place and seen to be working, I could agree that 80km p/h is not an unreasonable limit to be set.
Charles Knight
Hillcrest
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