Tokyo Ring Road needs repairs

THE Zambian Roads and

Highway Safety Group has noted with dismay the continued deterioration of the Lusaka Tokyo Ring Road despite this road being less than 10 years old.

The Group notes that despite this deterioration, there are no attempts to work on this road by the Roads Development Agency.

The Tokyo Ring Road is sunken in many places and has numerous potholes that are now making it unsafe to drive on this road, especially at night when visibility is poor.

To make matters worse, this bad stretch of Tokyo Ring Road has no warning signs alerting motorists to these dangers.

The Group is therefore appealing to the Japanese government, who through JICA, built this road as a gift to the Zambian people, to revisit this road and see the danger that it provides to the travelling public.

JICA would do well to rework this road and upgrade it to Tokyo standards before innocent lives are lost.

As a ring road, this road was expected to be a quicker route around Lusaka connecting

Kafue Road to Great East Road or southern part of Lusaka with eastern Lusaka.

As it stands this road is too slow and too congested to be called a ring road.

This road also lacks critical informational sign post directing users to important roads leading to well known places like University

Teaching Hospital, Woodlands Stadium, State House, Civic Centre and famous roads like Leopards Hills, Burma, Chilimbulu, Great East Road among others.

We hope this road will quickly be worked on before lives of both pedestrians and motorists are lost.

MTHONISWA BANDA,

Group Admin,

Zambian Roads and Highway Safety Group.