The Boksburg residents are disgruntled about the condition of the roads.
Boksburg community members said the metro’s dragging its feet to patch up the potholes and outlined that the potholes are damaging their vehicles.
The Advertiser travelled around Boksburg and found a lot of potholes along Rietfontein Road.
Other roads with potholes include the Rondebult and Main Reef roads intersection, Leeuwpoort and Da Gama streets intersection, President Brandt Road, on the corner of Barry Marais and Van Dyk roads, Cason and Trichardt roads intersection and Sydney Road, where the Advertiser’s offices are situated.
One of the complainants, Leonie Lengenfelder, said she had to spend R100 to fix two tyres that were damaged by a pothole in Rondebult Road near the R21 entrance.
“The potholes damaged two of my car’s tyres. I was shocked about what the towing vehicles’ drivers told me, saying they are always coming to the area because they know that those potholes are likely to cause accidents. They are capitalising on people’s plights and the metro’s unwillingness to fill up the potholes.
“We pay tax and our cars’ licence discs and driver’s licences, but the roads are not maintained. Most of them are in a dire state,” said Lengenfelder.
Marius de vos, Ward 32 councillor, said he has received a lot of complaints about the potholes, and he has sent them to the manager of roads and infrastructure.
“It is not only roads that are disintegrating, even the stormwater drainage systems are collapsing. I believe there’s a lack of will among the metro officials. Honestly, I think most of the roads deserve to be resurfaced in Ekurhuleni,” de Vos said.
