EDITOR – Laurie Road is looking like a cemetery at the moment, two young, innocent lives have already been lost.
We have been requesting that a traffic light, a circle, speed bumps or yield signs be erected for the past 15 years.
We have always been advised that there are no funds available and that it’s a through road.
Well, look at for example Palliser and Harris roads, Baker Street, how many stop streets and speed bumps do those roads have and they are also through roads.
How many more lives have to be lost on the treacherous Laurie Road before something is done?
A while back it was reported in the NEWS that a circle would be put in place at the Laurie/Aitkin and Cecil Auret intersection.
Why didn’t the municipality proceed with this?
Have they seen what the condition of the ‘supposed’ pavement and road is – it’s absolutely shocking.
There is no verge, just washed away sand and chunks of road missing.
You take your life in your hands as you don’t know whether a car is going to crash into you when you’re turning right from Laurie Road in to Aitkin Road.
Please, municipality, do something for your citizens.
EDENVALE RESIDENT.
EDITOR’S COMMENT – The letter was sent to the spokesperson for the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM), Mr Themba Gadebe, for comment on March 8.
Comment was requested by April 10.
At the time of going to print, no comment was received.
