Let’s join hands to make city safer

All motorists in the metro suffer from TPSD (traffic police shortage disorder)!

The lack of proper planning, bridges, traffic circles and synchronised traffic lights results in chaotic and frustrating journeys to and from work every single day.

Load-shedding simply exacerbates this situation.

Not a day goes by that I don’t hear emergency vehicles rushing to attend to (the inevitable) accidents that result.

The cost of this untenable situation is unimaginable.

It is high time that the ratepayers got some meaningful value for their hard-earned money in the form of traffic officers who are trained and appointed to direct traffic in the (dozen or so) major bottlenecks in the city traffic.

I am not the only one who feels that our traffic police are failing in their sworn mandate – they are not policing the traffic and as such are not making our roads safer!

All in SA are aware of our horrific road death toll statistics, and yet those most qualified and equipped to deal with this problem are (apparently) doing little or nothing about it.

I call upon all metro motorists to join hands in this endeavour.

Please visit gopetition.com or follow the link, https:// www.gopetition.com/petitions/activate-the-nmbmetro-traffic-police.html, to add your support so that we can have dedicated personnel on point duty where and when needed in the city.