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Johannesburg"s Declining Infrastructure… the CBD…

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Original Post Date: 2005-01-24  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/24/2005 5:05:41 AM
Johannesburg"s Declining Infrastructure… the CBD…
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Johannesburg"s Declining Infrastructure… the CBD…

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org


Date & Time Posted: 1/24/2005 5:05:41 AM

Johannesburg"s Declining Infrastructure… the CBD…

[Here, is more news on Johannesburg’s declining infrastructure. My view is that for the last 10 years, they’ve done little to improve the country’s real infrastructure… and they wasted the money either on their Socialist (bottomless-pit) projects… which result in ZERO RETURNS… (inbetween enriching themselves?) And they let the real core of the country slide… Now… if they don’t rush to invest and fix things… we will see some real damage.

Such is black rule… pandering to socialist junk ideas… Throwing good money after bad… While the Goose that lays the Golden Egg is neglected and slowly left to die… Well… inbetween taxing the Goose half to death… and kicking it in the head for not having the right “racial quotas”…

One has to ask oneself, how come the streets and roads were in good condition under the previous Government, but now they are falling apart.

I saw an interesting thing in Johannesburg’s central CBD. In some places, they don’t have manhole covers at all… and they go and use bricks and cement to cover it. I can’t remember the reason why… God only knows… Whether it is because blacks are now stealing man-hole covers – I don’t know. Anything is possible… they steal anything that is not nailed/bolted down these days…

Today, I was stunned… when the Municipality sent someone to cut the lawn in my suburb for only the 2nd time this entire summer. And further down a main road… I couldn’t believe my eyes… watching them putting up some lamp posts!! Thank God… so many lamp posts don’t function. I just wish they would do something about traffic lights these days… Hardly a day goes by when I don’t drive through a non-functioning traffic light.

One learns to be grateful for small things… and one marvels when simple things work again… as one watches what this experiment in socialism brings us… Jan]

There’s a safety hazard for every two minutes of walking in the CBD, but any hope of repairing them seems to be slipping through the cracks of bureaucracy

JRA inner city depot manager blames red tape for the bad state of Johannesburg’s pathways
January 24, 2005

By Sholain Govender

You could easily stub a toe on the cracked paving, disappear down a manhole or be sent flying by a loose flagstone.

The city centre’s sidewalks are falling apart.

A recent 20-minute stroll along a few busy CBD streets revealed at least 10 public safety hazards.

Accompanying The Star on this walkabout was the Johannesburg Roads Agency’s (JRA) acting inner city depot manager, John Mnisi.

Mnisi’s reaction to the damaged paving outside the Department of Housing on Sauer Street was that it was not his department, but
the “water or power (utilities that) are responsible for those problems”
“We have to get a budget before starting any work”.

Pointing to an uncovered manhole at the corner of Sauer and Market streets, Mnisi explained that his depot was not responsible for any paving surrounding any sewerage or water installations.

Some other sidewalks, he said, fall under the jurisdiction of the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), the company responsible for the renewal of central Joburg areas like Newtown and the fashion district.

But, when we came across damaged sidewalks under the JRA depot’s ambit, Mnisi cited a lack of funds as the main reason why his depot could not get its repair work done.

“Even if we get a complaint and it is logged, we have to get a budget for that first before starting any work,” Mnisi said. He explained that although the depot had a basic budget, this did not cover all jobs that needed to be done. A lengthy process had to be followed to get superiors to authorise funds.

The route we took started at The Star’s Sauer Street offices, up Market Street, past the Johannesburg Central library, the Absa campus, into Loveday Street, up Commissioner, along Joubert and down President Street.

Stumbling across stretches of sidewalks that had bricks missing from them, Mnisi opined that it was likely that contractors had arrived and done whatever repairs were necessary without replacing the pavement that had had to be removed.

“Many times contractors come in to do work and leave a site in a bad condition,” he said.

“We have no control over that.”

“People don’t go through the proper process of doing things and therefore we land up with these problems.”

JDA spokesperson Tshepo Nkosi said that damaged sidewalks highlighted by The Star “will be developed as part of the Provincial Government precinct”.

Nkosi added that the JDA would be upgrading Juta Street, from Harrison to Bertha Street, over a five-month period starting at the end of January.

“The High Court Precinct in the CBD around President Street (between Von Wielligh and Von Brandis) will also be upgraded,” Nkosi said.

Source: The Star (Johannesburg)
URL: http://www.star.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=12…/p>


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