In a happy coincidence I can report back that the two perilous potholes mentioned in last week’s column have been repaired.
You may be as surprised as I was. It took some willpower to drive over them and trust they truly had been fixed and it wasn’t a figment of my imagination.
Having had a moan, it’s time to say a significant thank you to whoever actually got stuck in and made it happen. My tyres also thank you.
Now if the person(s) who got this done could have a word with those responsible for repairing traffic lights, then things would be a lot better.
For example, the green arrow indicating a right turn through the main Port Shepstone intersection cannot be seen properly from the ‘front of the grid’, ie: the motorist at the front of the queue waiting to turn right.
Even the motorist behind can only see a sliver of green, like the flicking of a snake’s tongue and not the snake.
To make matters worse, there’s usually two or three beggars asking for food or money at the traffic lights, pressing their faces against the window, or very close to.
So, what happens is that the impatient folk in the queue – no one likes to wait in traffic – start hooting and remonstrating, yelling things that may bring into disrepute the intelligence of whosoever was unlucky enough to be in front.
The light has somehow twisted in southerly direction, as though rubber-necking to check out something more exciting somewhere else.
It’s certainly not concentrating on the task at hand.
On one occasion I heard myself cry out: ‘Give them a break, they haven’t seen the light’.
This in reference to the poor bloke who’s by now stalled his vehicle in the sudden and panicky realisation he’s holding things up.
It would seem, too, that the authorities have also not seen the light, otherwise they would surely have fixed the problem.
Presumably, it’s been reported and now it’ a matter of some red tape which needs to be scythed through to allow the job to be done.
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