At long last, the municipality is seemingly starting to pay attention to the faulty streetlights in the city, following angry public outcry against officials – who residents described as completely apathetic and unable to do even the simplest task.
This comes after scores of residents previously contacted the metro and this publication complaining about damaged street lights in their respective communities in Boksburg. Such complaints included areas where street lights were not working at all and others spotted burning day and night.
Dysfunctional Street Lights
Reported faulty street lights include the entire Leeuwpoort Street from the Rondebult intersection to President Brandt and Leeuwpoort intersection; Jubilee Street from the Leeuwpoort intersection to Van Dyk Road; large sections of Commissioner Street from Trichardts Road intersection to Absa bank and Kruger and Commissioner street intersection to Leeuwpoort; Kruger Street; the entire Boksburg East where solar lights were installed last year but were stolen; Van Riebeeck Street in Boksburg South; Reinet Street in Boksburg South Extension; Dudley Smith Road; Trichardts Road from Truter Street intersection to Cason Road; the stretch of Main Reef Road from Rondebult Road until Knights railway station; Wit Deep Road; Field Road, and several streets in Plantation, Parkrand and Farrar Park.
Nadia Bubb complained that she obtained a reference number from the call centre early last month when she reported that the lights on Morton Crescent’s street lights in Parkdene were not working, but nothing had been done.
Complaints Received
Ward 32 Clr Marius de Vos said he was among those who reported faulty lights claiming that he has been struggling to get municipal workers to repair the thousands of faulty lights for the past couple of years. He even escalated most of the residents’ complaints to the energy department’s management team, but the divisional head kept giving him the runaround.
The councillor is convinced that the municipal workers’ action to finally attend to the problem on Commissioner Street is partly in response to the angry public outcries as well as media’s intervention. “Street lights on Commissioner Street are getting fixed … at long last; thanks for your help through the stroke of your pen,” said de Vos.
This publication is still awaiting an official comment from the metro’s Communications and Brand Management Department regarding the state of the street light network in the city.
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