Residents and motorists can expect potholes in Edenvale to be repaired as soon as the respective tender has been awarded.
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MMC for City Planning Heather Hart said the tender, which is for the entire Ekurhuleni region, is in the evaluation process.
She said road repairs are expected to start at the end of February or in March.
Until then residents are encouraged to continue reporting potholes and sections of the roads that need to be resurfaced, via email, to the City of Ekurhuleni’s call centre or its mobile app.
Hart said all reported potholes will be repaired once the tender has been awarded.
Hart said she is trying to mobilise the members of the roads depot, which maintains Edenvale’s roads, to inspect the roads.
“The downside to this is it will take time as there are nine wards that fall under the road depots jurisdiction,” said Hart.
“The problem is worsened by critical vacancies, severe shortages of vehicles and a lack of adequate equipment needed to complete the jobs,” said Hart.
Hart said although there are challenges she described the acting roads depot manager as being excellent.
“He and his staff do their best to attend to the potholes as speedily as possible.”
Hart, who is also the Ward 18 councillor, said one of the busiest and worst affected roads in her ward is Amanda Road.
At the intersection of Amanda and Janet roads, numerous potholes can be could be seen along the frequented intersection.
Other roads which were recently brought to the NEWS’ attention include Dunbar and Driefontein roads.
“I’m encouraging residents to drive carefully especially during the rain, luckily in Edenvale most of us know where the potholes are.”
Hart appealed to community members to be patient.
“What has taken 22 years to break cannot take two years let alone two months to fix,” said Hart.
Hart said fiscal prudence is required to reduce the City’s operational expenditure by R400-million and capital expenditure by R500-m.
She said several projects were halted. These projects included an F1 racetrack, zoos and a CoE theme park.
“This was necessitated by lower collection rates in revenue collection,” said Hart.
A request for comment was sent to the city of Ekurhuleni on February 16 requesting comment by February 18 at 13:00.
At the time of going to print no comment was received.
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