DEAR Editor;
Once again, the R102 between Hibberdene and Port Shepstone has claimed another tyre.
When is our Roads Department going to start doing their work properly and stop costing us unnecessary heartaches and grief?
I have been unemployed for just over a year now and due to the fact that I am at a retirement age, I cannot find any employment anywhere anymore.
I struck a pothole on the R102 (main road) just past the Melville intersection going towards Banana Beach on Wednesday morning (March 9) at 05:18.
It was dark, roads were wet and an oncoming vehicle’s bright lights blinded me, coming around the corner. I felt my car start swaying and immediately knew that I had sustained a puncture.
I don’t have any income, as Sassa refuses to pay me any pension. I cannot get employment. So now who do I approach to compensate for our pathetic roadworks that cannot maintain our roads in a satisfactory condition?
They start digging out existing potholes, making them double their size, or bigger and deeper, then just fill these excavations with gravel.
Maybe two to three weeks later (or longer) and I stress the ‘maybe,’ they will return to make another attempt to do something about it.
After it has cost us motorists unbelievable and unnecessary expenses which mind you, are escalating daily, to replace tyres, have them balanced, get the wheel alignment done, maybe even throw in a shock absorber or two and damages to the suspension and steering.
Not to mention how many vehicles are actually written off in the process due to extensive damage by the potholes.
I have seen all through my life how so many municipalities get the job done and get it over with.
They arrive in the morning, dig out the potholes and/or bad sections of the road, do proper preparation and by that same afternoon, that section of road is as good as new again.
Why can’t our municipality do that? Why must it lead to frustration, unaffordable and unnecessary costs to the public before they act?
I would also like to know who I can approach to replace my damaged tyre, as I cannot afford to do it.
VERY IRATE MOTORIST
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