Pothole patching team spotted in Utrecht Street – What’s your take on this temporary quick fix?
Do you welcome the efforts of AbaQulusi Municipality in attempting to solve the dangerous dilemma for the time being with a proverbial 'Band Aid' until a more permanent and lasting solution can be applied, or do you feel that, despite their current financial constraints, the municipality should be doing more?
THERE’S an old joke about potholes that says, “In South Africa, we used to drive on the left of the road. Now we drive on what’s left of the road.”
Utrecht Street, in the stretch between, Deputation and Republic Streets has been a motorist’s nightmare in recent times, with the busy school road, closely resembling the impact site of a mild meteorite shower, dreadfully riddled with perilous potholes.
Parents of schoolgoing children, who utilise this road on a daily basis when dropping off and collecting their children from school, as well as motorists who commute along this hazardous stretch of asphalt, may be pleased to know that the team of pothole patchers from AbaQulusi Municipality were recently spotted carrying out repairs to the area.
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As previously stated, these repairs are merely a temporary fix and will be a small comfort to commuters until the municipal budget allows for proper repairs to be done to the road.
Do you travel along Utrecht Street, specifically the part between Deputation and Republic Streets, regularly?
If so, what’s your take on the patching process that is being employed as a temporary fix?
Do you welcome the efforts of AbaQulusi Municipality in attempting to solve the dangerous dilemma for the time being with a proverbial ‘Band Aid’ until a more permanent and lasting solution can be applied, or do you feel that, despite their current financial constraints, the municipality should be doing more?
