There’ll soon be lights at the end of the west tunnel

The Daspoort tunnel west of Pretoria will be closed for further maintenance over the next two weekends.

It will be closed for the next two Sundays in a row, on October 6 and 13, from 7:00 to 18:00, said local ward councillor Frik van Wyk.

“This maintenance work is to replace the 85 lights in the roof of the tunnel with brighter LED lights.

“So far, only 20 lights have been replaced,” said Van Wyk.

“The light in the tunnel is really bad,” he said.

“It makes visibility for motorists a problem and becomes a safety risk, especially since so many motorists and pedestrians use the tunnel daily.”

The 573m tunnel is used daily by pedestrians and hundreds of motorists.

It was hoped that all the lights would be replaced during the first tunnel closures, but the process took longer than the contractors thought, Van Wyk said.

Van Wyk previously explained that the tunnel had 85 lights on the roof with additional tube lights on the sides.

He said the new LED lights gave off enough light that there was no need to replace the tube lights.

The maintenance has been in the pipeline for a long time but because the metro did not have LED lights in stock, it was delayed.

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