One resident, known to the Advertiser, appears to have had enough of seeing no change and demands that municipality fix the roads soon.
The Advertiser was alerted to a correspondence between a municipal staff member who is assigned to deal with roads and Boksburg Ward 33 Clr Hilary Coke.
In the e-mails, the councillor, on many occasions, is seen requesting that the matter be resolved and be placed on the roads department’s priority list.
However, it would seem that despite all the requests and attempts by the Coke to have the street repaired, the matter is still pending and the road remains the same.
When prompted for a response, Coke says the issue of the road had been on many occasions reported to the municipality, and she had most recently gotten response from the relevant department.
“All that can be done now is to wait and see if the matter is attended to,” she says
Coke explains that another road that’s in need of repairs is Main Street, Witfield.
“Our biggest problem in this street is the heavy duty trucks that are using this road as a shortcut to Main Reef Road – they are the ones damaging the roads in Witfield,” she explains.
She says trucking companies who own the vehicles should be aware that the roads being used are residential area roads and is not built to carry heavy duty trucks.
“Many of the trucks take shortcuts through the area and the community is unhappy about it,” adds Coke.
Residents have expressed their frustrations toward the unsafe and unappealing roads feeling that Coke was not doing anything about it.
“I did not just sit back and do nothing about this matter,” says Coke in her defence, as she points out her e-mail correspondence with the roads department.
