With regards to the confiscation of access control security infrastructure, Mrs Hunter of Hurlingham writes:
I wish to state that Hurlingham is a very small residential suburb with no businesses located therein, so why must motorists come through this suburb to get to Sandton?
The residents were forced to take action against the terrible crimes at a high cost to safeguard this little suburb where the government has failed to combat the rampant crime.
It is the work of the Johannesburg Roads Agency to attend to roads and build new roads to ensure [efficient] traffic flow. They have failed miserably over the years [and] now they are making their problems our problems.
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These motorists are making our lives a misery [and are] restricting us from getting out of here.
I think this is very inconsiderate [and other motorists] can leave a bit earlier and not race through the roads to try and beat a few more cars at the stop street in Woodland Avenue.
To make matters worse, this [was] a safer place [before becoming] a victim of armed criminals outside my front gate and before my son was stabbed. All this came to an end when the gates were [put] up. Now we are once again sitting ducks.
If crime takes over the suburb again, it will be on the shoulders of the agency who, as far as I am concerned, do not think further than their noses. I will not hesitate to hold them fully responsible should I or my family face armed criminals again. Apply yourselves to your work and don’t to take what does not belong to you. The residents who do pay towards the upkeep of this suburb paid for [the gate], so return it.
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