Bryanston residents reminded to log their road issues
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The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) was approached with an enquiry about the management of roads and potholes inside gated communities on March 25.
This was following the discovery of a series of potholes along Baker Street inside the St Audley Road gated community in Bryanston on March 22.
JRA spokesperson Bertha Peters-Scheepers was asked if roads inside gated communities were the property of the agency.
She confirmed that cases varied. The differentiation lies between when the road simply falls within a gated community, and when it’s situated in a private estate.
“The JRA is responsible for maintaining council-owned roads and as such the JRA is responsible for maintaining roads inside gated communities,” Peters-Scheepers explained. “Privately owned gated private estate roads are not maintained by JRA as the roads fall outside our jurisdiction.”
Peters-Scheepers added residents within gated communities do become served by the roads agency where complaints are logged by customers.
“In most cases, residents do log service requests and at times service defects are spotted by inspectors while undertaking routine checks,” said Peters-Scheepers, encouraging residents to be the JRA’s eyes and ears on the ground by reporting road-related defects.
“Communities inside privately owned gated communities may request JRA services through a service level agreement or have their potholes repaired by their contractor or preferred person via their landlord or developer. The inspector will be dispatched on March 28, to investigate the defects in the area, and they will be attended to as per our schedule of works.”
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