MOTORISTS will have to live with the fact that trucks will regularly get stuck underneath the Elgin Road subway.
On August 20 a third truck in the space of two weeks got stuck and caused major delays.
Because of this, Irma Steffens suggested the metro reintroduce overhead chains, warning truck drivers that their vehicle was too high.
In reply, the metro said it had in the past considered various alternatives in dealing with trucks getting stuck underneath the bridge. These mechanisms included the overhead structure with chains and an infra-red warning and detection system.
“The latest approach was for improved signage approaching the bridges. The reality of all these systems was that none of them actually deterred the trucks from entering the bridge,” a metro spokesman said.
“None of them actually proved to be more effective than the other over the longer term. The system currently implemented is, however, more conventional and compliant to the regulations and relevant manuals. This system should, in the metro’s view, be maintained.”
The media can also assist in increasing the awareness of this height limitation in the road system, the metro stated.
Typical useless bloody metro
I use that part of the road often and I live in birchleigh. So here is the thing if I have to live with it are they going to live with it if I refuse to pay my rates and taxes or my water? It is not the residents that are illiterate it is the stupid truck drivers that either can’t read or just blatantly ignore the traffic signs. Now because of their stupidity I must live with it. Thanks I have about R3000 spare nextonto and I dare you to cutmy power. I double dog dare you
Anyone ever considered making the road a half meter or so deeper. To me that seems the obvious solution.