eMalahleni is known as ‘The place of coal’ because we are known as a city that is surrounded by coal mines and therefore also surrounded with trucks.
On Tuesday, March 17 residents in Booyong Street, Jackaroo were furious at the truck drivers using their street as an alternative route to get to their destination.
Three trucks were stopped, the truck drivers were asked for their licenses and company information but they refused to show it.
After realising that their trucks could get impounded while in conversation with the traffic department, the drivers showed their driver’s licenses and received fines for driving and parking in a residential area.
It is alleged that the trucks and mines made an illegal entrance at Deborah Street and that Transnet can not even keep up on repairing the road.
Allegedly this road is used when strikes take place in Klarinet.
Henryette Jacobs, a resident in Booyong Street said; “The trucks are using this alternative road every day. Trucks have been damaging the railway crossing and some trucks even got stuck on the railway. The trucks come by without stopping and keeping to the speed limit”.
The Traffic Department have been pulling trucks over in Elsabe Street but only to find that the trucks will be using the same road the following day.
