“Just off Lever Road, the road starts off tarred, and then it’s still decent gravel, but as you get to the bottom where the school is, the road is so awful we will soon need to drive a 4×4,” exclaimed parent Chauntel Gideon.
She said it was a nightmare trying to get her daughter to school on the road strewn with potholes.
“The holes are becoming so big they will soon end up becoming a dam. And now they have a stench like sewage,” she said.
Gideon said she and a number of other parents had lodged a complaint with the Johannesburg Road Agency on 26 February, but nothing had been done.
“Every time you call them for feedback, they say they are working on it,” said Gideon.
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The school principal, Lynelle Marx, agrees with her sentiments. “We have a lot of children with asthma and the dust is really bad for them. We would like to see the road tarred and turned into a one-way road,” said Marx. She said the road currently has no speed bumps and is often congested.
“We’ve been notifying the agency of this issue for the past 18 months,” she said.
She also said that they send the agency monthly reminders of the problem, however, they have not received a response.
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Bertha Peters-Scheepers of the agency said, “[The road is one of our] Agricultural Holdings roads and has been scheduled for maintenance as part of the region’s gravel road stabilisation project.”
She said as part of the project, they will commence with George Road in Glen Austin, then work on Ninth Road in Noordwyk shortly thereafter.
“Both roads are to be graded, and then layered with an aggregate to stabilise the road surface which will greatly improve the quality of the road for commuters and community members alike, and will address the pothole and dust concerns [she] raised,” said Peters-Scheepers.
Although Peters-Scheepers did not give a specific date, she said all this would be done in June.
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