Motorists travelling along Hendrik Potgieter Road (from 14th Avenue through to Cradlestone Mall) are becoming more and more frustrated at the total lawlessness of users on this road, so we would like you to send an open letter to Minister Bheki Cele, Mayor Herman Mashaba, and lastly the useless Wayne Minnaar of JMPD. If you send this open letter on behalf of the motorists of the West Rand, our identities etc. are preserved as confidential information. Please do not disclose any of my information as I am just a spokesperson for these concerned road users.
We challenge the above three people to travel this road three times, once in peak traffic in the morning, again at around lunch time and then in the afternoon peak traffic. And PLEASE – they don’t have to arrive in ‘blue light brigades’. We drive that road daily, five days a week and don’t use a ‘blue light brigade’.
What are you so scared of that you can’t just drive down a road and observe the lawlessness taking place? Simply drive along this road in a unmarked car and see first-hand what the West Rand motorist has to put up with on a daily basis. Here are some examples:
1) Taxis, trucks and some motorists driving in the yellow lanes because they can’t be bothered to wait in the traffic like normal people do.
2) Taxis driving on the wrong side of the road.
3) Taxis making U-turns in the major intersections
4) One of the biggest problems, and probably the most disruptive issue, is that the slip road out of Makro has been taken over by taxis. At lunch time, up to forty taxis park on this slip road and kerb, which means that motorists coming out of Makro have to put themselves at risk by going around the taxis and force themselves into the stream of oncoming traffic. This is extremely dangerous.
Often at lunch time or afternoon tea time, you can see members of the police and our dearest friend Wayne Minnaar’s JMPD officers sitting among the taxi drivers having lunch or tea. Yes, you’ve got it, they are not enforcing the law, just joining them for lunch or tea.
We have noticed a large number of flare-ups which could end up in violence (on YOUR watch) in the traffic and we can assure you that something is going to snap and motorists will start retaliating at the unacceptable lawlessness on our roads in the country.
We are not sure if the three gentleman mentioned above are scared of the taxis or the other law-breaking offenders, but something has to be done.
