I was pleased to read about the proposed SA National Roads Agency road upgrades. (“Sanral has R50bn pipeline to improve road networks”, September 3).
However, my driving experience around Johannesburg paints a picture of collapse and neglect. I recently drove to OR Tambo airport in the dark hours, using the M1, M2 and N3, as well as the airport road.
Most of the route is unlit. Road markings are nonexistent. Even knowing the road, it is very dangerous. Floodlights on adjacent properties and oncoming motorists, forced to use their bright lights, are blinding.
These roads are among SA’s busiest, and the worst. Someone, either the Johannesburg Road Agency or Sanral, should get their act together and fix it.
I’d almost made it back from the airport when I came across a couple who had just lost the front of their car on the double-decker section of the M1. There have been no crash barriers there for years.
Thanks for the announcement, Sanral, but who do you think you’re kidding?
Bernard Benson
Parklands
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