UPDATE: A solution to Salt Rock traffic madness?

The Ilembe Chamber is proposing a solution to control traffic flow at high-accident and busy hotspots on the Dolphin Coast.

On behalf of local private businesses, the chamber proposed to KwaDukuza council last year that they would facilitate training and deployment of ‘pointsmen’ to help regulate traffic flow at the Salt Rock intersection, the Tiffany Centre and Foxhill Road intersection, Sheffield Road intersection, Umhlali Preparatory School intersection and Mount Richmore/Dunkirk intersection.

This recommendation comes after years of motorists enduring high traffic volumes and accident risks at these points.

Efforts to approve and install traffic lights at some of the intersections have been ongoing for years, as KDM, Sanral, the transport department, and respective developers have not been agreeing on the way forward.

Last year Sanral said the responsibility for putting up traffic lights at the Tiffanys/Foxhill intersection lay with the developers of Tiffany’s Centre.

Also read: Sanral approves traffic lights for dangerous Tiffany’s intersection at Salt Rock

Asked when the developer was planning to put up the lights, a Tiffany’s spokesperson declined to comment.

For the initiative, the Chamber plans to work with a company called Traffic Free Flow which will ultimately be responsible for employing and managing the pointsmen.

Chamber CEO Cobus Oelofse said it was recommended that the chamber, Traffic Free Flow, and KDM enter into a three-year agreement.

“If any liability arises, whether directly or indirectly as a result of the performance of the duties of pointsmen or of any act or omission on the part of pointsmen, it will be borne by the chamber and Traffic Free Flow. The company will also hold the necessary insurances to guard against any liability that may arise.”

The item has not yet been passed by council.

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