Laudium motorists have been complaining about traffic gridlock caused by road works in the area. Motorists have blamed the Tshwane metro police for not deploying officers to ease the traffic flow.
Between 06:00 and 08:00, traffic flow on Quagga Road is fine while Tshwane metro police manage the peak-hour motorists. The road connects Pretoria West, Laudium, Erasmia and Johannesburg.
“After eight in the morning, when metro police leave the spot, everything becomes a mess, motorists do as they please. There is no order. Some motorists almost crashed their vehicles because there was no official conducting the traffic flow,” said a construction worker who wanted to remain anonymous.
Disgruntled motorist Muzafaar Rajah told Rekord it seemed like the Tshwane metro did not care about motorists who travelled during the day.
“You have taxi drivers from Laudium, Olievenhoutbosch, Randburg, and other areas as well as private motorists and everyone wants to go first at an intersection and that’s when confusion and the flow of traffic is disturbed.”
Rajah said he was stuck in traffic for almost two hours last week.
“There was a crash between a taxi driver and a motorist and that delayed the flow of traffic. We tried to phone the Tshwane metro police department but got no reply.”
Tshwane metro police spokesperson Isaac Mahamba said police were deployed to busy intersections during peak hour traffic. “During peak hours there are metro police or Outsurance points men at intersections, and when the traffic flow slows down the metro police go to their other duties. They cannot be at the same place the whole day.”
The road that links Pretoria West, Atteridgeville, Laudium and Erasmia has been under construction since early this year to ease traffic flow during peak hours and to fix potholes.
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