CPF chairman Barries Barnard reported that the metro has made one or two visits to the area since they first reported that the lights on Makon, Dubchick, Teal, Lyster, Ibis and Klipwagter streets had stopped working.
Barnard feels reporting the streetlights to the metro call centre and receiving reference numbers does not help.
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“When you follow up on a complaint and give a reference number, the operator informs you that according to their records the job was signed off as ‘completed’,” he says.
The residents report their concern about the broken lights to Barnard on a regular basis.
“It is very dark at night and you can barely see the road,” says Barnard.
He was sure there was light at the end of the tunnel when the metro arrived on January 5 to fix the street lights in Makon Street. However, it was short-lived, as the following day three of the ‘fixed’ lights weren’t working.
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“In December a man drove his vehicle into a lamp post due to the dark streets,” says Barnard.
Klipwagter Street has been in total darkness for the better part of four years, he adds.
“In July there were a few lights burning after a visit from the metro, but even those didn’t burn for long,” he says.
Barnard cannot understand why the metro is taking so long to solve the problem.
“Is it due to a lack of funding or just pure negligence on their side?” he asks.
Despite sending questions to the metro on January 6, no comment was forthcoming at the time of going to print.
