LETTER: Large trucks on North Way Road: Why is this allowed?
The concerned resident writes about his concern as to why large trucks are using North Way Road in Greenhills.
• Anonymous writes:
I would like to express my concern about the situation on North Way Road in Greenhills.
There is a sign which indicates ‘5-ton max weight’ in a residential area. Nowadays and more often than ever, 30 to 50-ton trucks (transporting liquefied petroleum gas) as well as fuel tankers are driving at full speed on this road. Thousands of school kids also make use of this road daily which is dangerous.
Are those whose job it is to enforce the law being bribed and is this the reason why nothing is being done? Why are these trucks using this road – perhaps because it is a shortcut?
That’s the gist of what this letter is about.
Have the police and traffic police no sense of shame?
How can they knowingly and wilfully allow North Way Road to be a designated 5-ton max weight road in a residential area to be used as an illegal shortcut?
These drivers can be seen openly driving right through stop streets all the while on their cell phones at a breakneck speed despite the many school learners who have to use this road. The stop sign at a high school in the area has also been missing for months and the white stop lines have been obliterated. The road has been ruined and there are potholes and burst water pipes everywhere.
To cap it all there is no respect from these drivers for funeral corteges. They just drive right through them and they use exhaust brakes in a residential area.
Can those who enforce the law please do what they are supposed to?
