JHB ends Outsurance pointsman project

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http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=76642

From Monday, there will be no more pointsmen on Johannesburg's roads.

The city said it had no choice but to end the 702 Outsurance Pointsmen project because it has to make the process of appointing the companies involved fair.

Instead, metro police officers will direct traffic where necessary.

The project was set up six years ago to alleviate congestion on Johannesburg’s roads and was later implemented in Pretoria and Cape Town.

Talk Radio 702's Station Manager Pheladi Gwangwa said, “When the new MMC came into office after these local government elections, we then approached her office to say the service level agreement is coming to an end, let’s regularise it. So we were quite taken by surprise last week Tuesday when we were told that a decision was actually made to summarily terminate this project.”

However, the City of Johannesburg’s Gabu Tugwana said it was a complicated process.

“Indeed [it] is sad that it has come to this, but we have to be sensitive to the procurement regulation of the city and the traffic act,” Tugwana added
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This is a disgrace:cry:
 
So what will happen is that the city will pay one of its fat cats to do the work, and he will charge them double but do half a job.
 
Nah, thats too easy..

What actually will happen is they will setup a committee to investigate what is necessary for the tender.
The Tender will go out... it will be awarded to a company with NO experience, it will charge R150k per pointsman for a month (minimum).. but the pointsman will never actually appear at the intersection, as of course they will be on strike for more money....

This will go on for a few months, before the tender will be investigated for irregularities, whereupon it will be suspended and a new tender will be issued, and the original tenderwinner will re-apply under a new company name and the process will start again.
 
The sales of meat pies will drop as metro offices are actually forced to do some work.
 
Instead, metro police officers will direct traffic where necessary.
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hahahahaha, let me guess, its never necessary right?
lol, last time I saw regular metros directing traffic, it would have been more helpful NOT to have them at the intersection anyway.
 
This is madness. The only reason some of us manage to get work everyday is often due to these guys!
 
Metro Police only get involved in activities that can be performed while sitting and eating fried chicken.

Unfortunately traffic light duties and moving violations (passing over white lines, overtaking in emergency lanes, etc) don't fall into that category !!!
 
Doesn't really make any difference to us here in the South of Joburg.
The project really only benefitted the fancy shmancy northern suburbs.
I think I have only ever seen those outsurance guys once in my lifetime.
We have plenty of lights out all the time.
We are just used to it by now and everybody drives like a cowboy through the Wild West intersections.
 
Why don't they actually fix the traffic lights? Here in Cape Town all our traffic lights actually work, no need for pointsmen.
 
Garyvdh said:
Doesn't really make any difference to us here in the South of Joburg.
The project really only benefitted the fancy shmancy northern suburbs.
I think I have only ever seen those outsurance guys once in my lifetime.
We have plenty of lights out all the time.
We are just used to it by now and everybody drives like a cowboy through the Wild West intersections.
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You can't send pointsmen to every plaas...
 
The only reason why I get to University on time is these guys... The only metrocops I see are the morons who sit in front of a camera for hours trying to skrew money out of people :mad:
 
scotty777 said:
The only reason why I get to University on time is these guys... The only metrocops I see are the morons who sit in front of a camera for hours trying to skrew money out of people :mad:
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and normally within sight of a intersection with dead lights :mad:
 
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