RE: One-way traffic – Wordsworth Road, Farrarmere, Benoni.
I have been pondering about this email for over a year … and I’m sure I speak on behalf of many drivers.
I have lived in Virgo Street for over nine years and travel down this road each and every morning on my way to work and there is NOT one morning (other than in school holidays and weekends) when I don’t encounter countless traffic violations in that small stretch of road.
As I see by the traffic road sign at the bottom of Main/Wordsworth roads, this is a one-way during certain times of the morning/afternoon on school days.
However, there are taxis and individual cars that violate this traffic sign daily and somehow aggravate the drivers travelling down Wordsworth, by travelling up Wordsworth, ignoring the rules of the road.
They then do a U-turn at the school entrance and proceed down Wordsworth Road again, as if it was a one-way, and think they have done nothing wrong.
I have seen drivers (myself included) indicating to these drivers that it is a one-way and getting the “finger” or verbal abuse out of their car windows.
I have not seen any teachers at the school gate in a long time to monitor this situation, let alone any metro traffic officials fining these individuals for disobeying the traffic rules.
There is also an “accident waiting to happen” on the corner of Wordsworth/Main as pupils cross over Main Road at the zebra crossing on their way to school. They take their “own sweet time” as cars slow down for them to cross the road, and you have cars coming across from the vet as well as cars trying to cross the road and turn left into Main Road.
I have grandchildren at Farrarmere Primary School and they have one-way rules in place and somehow manage to get their parents to obey the rules of the road, making traffic flow easily and efficiently.
I also have friends who take their children to Benoni High and this school and their parents manage to abide by the rules of the road regarding one-way traffic.
I am pleading with you as a school and governing body, to teach and remind your pupils and their parents that this is a traffic offence.
These students are future road-users/drivers and, if they see their parents and taxi drivers disobeying the rules of the road, how can we expect them to obey simple rules and road signs?
We urgently need to get the Metro Police involved by showing their presence and fining the perpetrators, or we need them to remove the one-way signs and just let everyone do their own thing.
Regards
Mrs Dalene Burns
082 747 3985
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