Why the paralysis?

WHAT is it that our City Council cannot see that almost every other very frustrated motorist in Cape Town can? How much more blatantly obvious does it need to be that the unfinished flyover needs to be connected desperately? Why should it take years of investigation, student projects and a further delay until year-end merely to evaluate what should be done with these flyovers?

Does the council not see the neverending traffic jam almost continuously at the Waterfront Intersection? Do they not see that long lines of cars are tailing all the way back up Nelson Mandela Boulevard, that the traffic signals are hopelessly out of sync, that this entire complex causes severe tailbacks way back into the city as far as Adderley Street and well into the Waterfront almost on a permanent basis? Are they not aware of the huge increase in traffic leading into this intersection?

This is a classic case of paralysis by analysis! Long investigations, proposal projects and endless meetings when the answer stares us all in the face. At least link up the Ring Road connection to Sea Point and the Green Point circle, and allow the large volume of traffic to flow directly in the Sea Point direction. There seem to be funds for all sorts of other infrastructural projects so a “shortage of money” simply will not wash as an excuse!

The message is JUST DO IT and drop all the huffing and puffing which will lead to the same obvious conclusion.