Your reporter seems pleased to share with your readers the commitment from the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) to employ additional technicians to maintain the city’s traffic lights (Joburg to reduce time for traffic light repairs, March 18). I confess myself somewhat under-whelmed by the news.
The moment there’s any real rain, a significant proportion of the city’s traffic lights go on the blink.
Last Thursday, a colleague who commutes from Bedfordview to Parktown through the suburbs, encountered only two sets of lights actually working.
Ensuring a proper and efficient movement of traffic should be a major priority in municipal government, and should take precedence over the deploying of comrades in office jobs in which their crowning achievement will be another Eco Mobility Month or the generation of road-closure regulations.
Service delivery takes many forms: for the JRA, maintaining electronic signallisation and the road surfaces should be up there with the city’s mission and vision statement.
It is clear from the article that there are only 12 technicians working on 2,135 traffic lights!
If they’ve known for so long that they don’t have enough people to perform the job, now is a little late to be making this announcement.
If they don’t have the money, retrench some of the people squatting in their offices and prioritise the things that count.
Michael Fridjhon
Via e-mail
Picture: BUSINESS DAY
Photograph by: Picture: BUSINESS DAY
Your reporter seems pleased to share with your readers the commitment from the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) to employ additional technicians to maintain the city’s traffic lights (Joburg to reduce time for traffic light repairs, March 18). I confess myself somewhat under-whelmed by the news.
The moment there’s any real rain, a significant proportion of the city’s traffic lights go on the blink.
Last Thursday, a colleague who commutes from Bedfordview to Parktown through the suburbs, encountered only two sets of lights actually working.
Ensuring a proper and efficient movement of traffic should be a major priority in municipal government, and should take precedence over the deploying of comrades in office jobs in which their crowning achievement will be another Eco Mobility Month or the generation of road-closure regulations.
Service delivery takes many forms: for the JRA, maintaining electronic signallisation and the road surfaces should be up there with the city’s mission and vision statement.
It is clear from the article that there are only 12 technicians working on 2,135 traffic lights!
If they’ve known for so long that they don’t have enough people to perform the job, now is a little late to be making this announcement.
If they don’t have the money, retrench some of the people squatting in their offices and prioritise the things that count.
Michael Fridjhon
Via e-mail
Change: -0.47%
Change: -0.57%
Change: -1.76%
Change: -0.34%
Change: 0.02%
Data supplied by Profile Data
Change: -1.49%
Change: 0.08%
Change: -0.47%
Change: 0.00%
Change: -0.04%
Data supplied by Profile Data
Change: -0.34%
Change: 0.03%
Change: -0.10%
Change: -0.22%
Change: -0.69%
Data supplied by Profile Data
Change: -0.28%
Change: -1.15%
Change: -0.07%
Change: -1.21%
Change: -0.22%
Data supplied by Profile Data