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On the road to repair

FOURWAYS - Several roads in Fourways and surrounding areas are set for an overhaul as the Johannesburg Roads Agency outlined multi-million rand plans to repair the city's roads.

The roads agency was investing R190 million on road resurfacing for the current financial year following a Visual Condition Index conducted last year to establish the condition of the city’s 13 428km of road network.

The resurfacing programme commenced last year with a total expenditure of R140 million, and roads in parts of the city, including Rosebank CBD and Midrand had already been resurfaced.

However, the roads agency clarified that not all roads in need of resurfacing would be addressed this year.

“If your road is still not on the road list, please rest assured [that] over the next three years, if your road needs resurfacing, it will be on future lists,” said the roads agency’s managing director Skhumbuzo Macozoma.

Roads that would be addressed in this financial year included:

  •  Ibis Lane (Fourways)
  •  Turley Road (Magaliessig)
  •  Juweel Street (Douglasdale)
  •  Dias Crescent (Douglasdale Ext 13)
  •  Eslin Road (Douglasdale Ext 56)
  •  Lekoa Street (Klipfonteinview Ext 2)
  •  Robert Bruce Road (Beverley Ah)
  •  Fountain Road (Beverley Ah)
  •  Lonehill Boulevard Nb (Beverley Ext 4)
  •  Neptune Avenue (Crowthorne Ah)
  •  Buffalo Street (Diepsloot West)
  •  Jb Marks Street (Diepsloot West Ext 1)
  •  Ubuntu Road ( Diepsloot West Ext 2)
  •  Ndematsheloni Street (Diepsloot West Ext 6)
  •  Industrial Road (Kya Sands)
  •  Precision Street (Kya Sands)
  •  Bernie Street NB (Kya Sands)
  •  Salvia Road (Kyalami Ah)
  •  Crocus Road (Kyalami Ah)
  •  Swart Drive (President Park Ah)
  •  Brand Road (President Park A.h.)
  •  Nanyuki Road (Sunninghill Park Ah)
  •  Baker Street (Vorna Valley Ext 7)
  •  Bushwillow Avenue (Fourways Ext 10)
  •  Pieter Wenning Road (Witkoppen)

The roads agency did not provide a definitive timeline for the commencement and completion of resurfacing but asked the public to bear with them during the road works.

“My big plea… to the citizens of the city, is to please work with us. Now that we are sharing information with you, please hold us accountable and reprimand us if we don’t deliver on what we have committed. Please work with us so we are able to deliver on our mandate.”

The roads agency encouraged residents to report road and storm water issues to 0860 562 874/ hotline@jra.org.za or on twitter @MyJra

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