DEAR Editor;
South Coast infrastructure, where do I start? From electricity outages to water shortages and in particular the roads have gone from a nuisance to dangerous and now, to the optimist, even comical.
Swerving out of the way of potholes has become a way of life for me along the R620 coastal road. Or in heavy traffic I am forced to drive straight over potholes to avoid a car accident. This is sure to lead to flat tyres of which I saw someone changing their flat tyre today.
I get to a large intersection where none of the traffic lights are operating. By traffic law, this should be treated as a fourway stop. But what is clear to me is many people don’t know this rule or how a fourway stop even works.
It becomes some kind of free-for-all accident in slow motion but the cars don’t actually hit each other, instead people waving and hooting at each other in the middle of rush hour. Do we get angry or laugh?
Why the traffic lights are out could be any number of reasons; a blown transformer, maintenance issues or the more probable load shedding. But what I have learned having recently done some research on the roadworks on the R61 is that the people responsible like to blame their tools.
No ownership is taken for a roadworks job that has been underway for almost a year and there seems to be nothing happening there at all.
I was recently taking photos on R61 and only found one worker on site for the whole stretch of road works and it was a single woman waving a flag. Comical.
After a long hazardous drive back home to Ramsgate. It’s time for me to take a shower, no water. Again comical.
To cope with the madness of it all we have to be able to laugh sometimes and look at the humour in it.
The municipality and relevant departments point fingers at each other, getting us nowhere.
I wonder, are the people in charge laughing too? Laughing all the way to the bank perhaps?
On a more serious note, at the end of the day these daily upsets are taking a toll on the locals and it’s the locals who are paying the taxes.
OBSERVER
Ramsgate
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