Adopt-a-Robot back on track
The highly anticipated adopt-a-robot project is back on track with JRA having received two service level agreements back from potentially participating local businesses.
The adopt-a-Robot project that will see bustling intersections connected to backup power from local businesses, is back on track.
Acting head of the mobility and freight department at the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA), Sipho Nhlapo, explains that miscommunication had likely led to the first service level agreements (SLA), being signed between JRA and local businesses, not reaching him.
SLAs were sent to participating companies for scrutiny by their legal departments and for changes to be proposed.
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“I have since received the two SLAs and handed them to our legal department, which will finalise the agreements and hand them in to be signed by the JRA CEO. As soon as the SLAs are signed, I will send them back to the companies for their signatures, and our technical teams will take over from there.”
The Roodepoort Northsider previously reported that the process has stalled.
The project aims to ease congestion by keeping intersections powered through load-shedding by connecting them to backup power from local businesses.
According to the Willowbrook, Ruimsig, Amarosa and Poortview Residents Association (RA) chairperson, Martin van der Westhuizen, the RA is working hard to act as a go-between between the JRA and local businesses that have shown an interest in signing up.
“We are very relieved that there seems to be some movement in the right direction again. We will continue to push from our side to keep this project moving forward.”
