Traffic lights need separate circuits – resident
Isn’t it within the realms of possibility that “someone, somewhere” could put traffic lights on to a separate electrical circuit?
EDITOR – The Express, May 5, page 1, “Lack of pointsmen frustrating” refers.
The EMPD’s media liaison officer explained the department’s difficulties.
I am sure many readers could understand that situation, apart from the obvious fact that probably more EMPD officers need to be employed and not simply as pointsmen.
However, in this technologically-advanced age, let’s face it, man first landed on the moon more than 50 years ago, the Hubble Telescope took photographs from millions of miles away and sent them back to Earth and today’s mobile phones can do so much more than simply make and receive a call.
Isn’t it within the realms of possibility that “someone, somewhere” could put traffic lights onto a separate electrical circuit?
When our “beloved” Eskom cannot cope with the electricity demand, not an infrequent occurrence, why can’t power be fed to traffic lights, as it doubtless is to other essential services, such as hospitals, and so on?Just thinking
Kempton Park
