Gauteng road project costs rocket ( understatement )

I think we are sitting with a situation where arrogant politicians are sitting in positions they are ill qualified for ending up in exorbitant costs to the public because they are easily taken advantage of by especially foreign service providers. Not to begin speaking of the corruption involved!!!!
 
antowan said:
I think we are sitting with a situation where arrogant politicians are sitting in positions they are ill qualified for ending up in exorbitant costs to the public because they are easily taken advantage of by especially foreign service providers. Not to begin speaking of the corruption involved!!!!
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Like City Parks in Johannesburg buying trees at 5 times the price? Must be really difficult to figure out that a tree shouldn't cost more than your car. :(
 
supersunbird said:
Offramps and onramps at Garsfontein Rd (there wasn't any), new offramps and and onramps at Lynnwood Rd (there were none going and coming from north), much better interchange at Rigel (you dont sit there for 20 to 25 min anymore), same at Hans Strydom and R21. The new lights along the R21 are really nice and from Brakfontein north on the N1. Allandale is also a vastly improved interchange better.

The consistent resurfacing of R21 and now having started close to the Old JHB Road on N1 south are not so nice and some of the crap JHB interchanges are still crap (heres looking at you William Nicol)...
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You need to explore some of the other places around Gauteng.... when you have a few days to spare and don't mind sitting in bumper to bumper traffic or driving on roads that would make an off road trail look like a highway.
 
Garyvdh said:
You need to explore some of the other places around Gauteng.... when you have a few days to spare and don't mind sitting in bumper to bumper traffic or driving on roads that would make an off road trail look like a highway.
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In the 27 years i lived they havent redone the main road that most of mamelodi roslyn etc etc takes to pta west

Its a bloody nightmare
 
Our tax hard at work enriching the ANC corrupt "elite". :rolleyes: :(
 
Garyvdh said:
You need to explore some of the other places around Gauteng.... when you have a few days to spare and don't mind sitting in bumper to bumper traffic or driving on roads that would make an off road trail look like a highway.
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I have seen other parts so which specific GFIP part are you talking about?


And as you can see I have said that William Nicol is bad (and actually dangerous according to me) and the frequent resurfacing is not on.
 
antowan said:
I am not going to have anybody convince me all the stuff they did cost more and R6 - R10Billion....
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What do you think the chances are that someone along the grapevine made a continental stuffup with the figure? 90bn is a heck of a lot of money...
 
All they built was a few roads and a lot of stations for the gravy train.
 
supersunbird said:
I have seen other parts so which specific GFIP part are you talking about?
And as you can see I have said that William Nicol is bad (and actually dangerous according to me) and the frequent resurfacing is not on.
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The N12 through Benoni, Boksburg... and through Alberton, Glenanda. The section through Boksburg is an utter disaster and whoever that contractor is he should be dragged out and shot.

The Gilooleys interchange is still problematic despite a massive re-design, but one accident is usually enough to bring a halt to the entire intersection... the same is true of Elands and Reading interchange. The N3 South heading up the Van Buuren Hill is still a problem. There are several accidents there every day and they cause massive backlogs. The R24 from the highway towards the city is very often backlogged. The Souther portion of the Ben Schoeman highway is always busy any time of the day or week and once again a single accident is enough to bring that section to a stand still.

It doesn't help that the JMPD have no idea how to handle accidents. In the USA there are signs all over the place that tell people to move cars off the road if the accident is not serious. But the JMPD just close off the entire highway for three hours. Never mind how much petrol is wasted and how much pollution is generated.

The Reading interchange is the one I go through twice everyday. It has been upgraded, but where it was straight and smooth before, it now has some dangerous curves and kinks. The net result of the upgrade is that the aging R59 now cannot handle the extra traffic flow and six lanes merging into two now causes a massive backlog near the Michelle Avenue offramp on the R59. That adds an extra ten minutes onto my journey. So the "upgrades" have actually made the roads worse for me.
 
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