Please address road maintenance on R102 between Sea Park and Umzumbe
The question is why isn't the work being done?
The stretch of the R102 between Sea Park and Umzumbe has become a textbook example of municipal negligence – a ticking time bomb for motorists and pedestrians alike.
Verges along this road haven’t seen a maintenance crew in a year. In places like the notorious Sunwich Port bridge bend, crash barriers are obliterated and signage is non-existent.
Drivers are left guessing their way around a 90-degree turn with no warning at all.
Meanwhile, shoulder lines are now suggestions rather than guides, buried beneath two-metre-wide overgrowth that forces cars – and worse, trucks – directly into oncoming lanes.
Windscreens are taking hits from overhanging branches while painted road markings, cat eyes, and basic safety barriers are either missing or buried in foliage.
It’s not just dangerous. It’s disgraceful.
This isn’t an oversight – it’s a full-blown abandonment. Either officials haven’t noticed (unlikely), or the tint on their bulletproof convoy windows is so dark they simply can’t see the problem.
Or maybe, just maybe, they’re too busy taking the highway exits to their estate hideaways while the rest of us dodge death on the daily commute.
Whatever the reason, the message is clear: they don’t care. And worse – they aren’t even pretending to.
JOUDIE ROBBERTS
