BCC LETTING RESIDENTS DOWN

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is letting us down please in the maintenance of traffic lights (robots). Is it not that it goes without saying that the local authority has the responsibility to maintain and make sure that all the traffic lights in the city are not faulty. However it seems as if they are forgetting their duty or they are taking it for granted.

I am writing this in particular reference to the ongoing recurrence of road accidents at the traffic lights that are close to the National University of Science and Technology. The traffic lights are at corner

Cecil Avenueand Gwanda Road. At this point road accidents are the order of the day. Recently, on Sunday the 12^th of February 2012 there was an accident involving a small vehicle and a haulage truck. This was because the traffic lights were not working properly. Some time last year in December there was also another accident at the same spot due to the same reason. 

 So in a period of only two months already two accidents have occurred. What more accidents are we going to have at this spot only just because some other people are too reluctant to do their job. We now know these people as those who are not concerned with prevention but are experts in curing. But now they have failed even to mend the robots after a series of accidents. Although cure does not solve the already made damage it is better than to ignore.

There is another example of what I can call sabotage on the part of the BCC. Last year, towards the festive season, a traffic light was hit by a vehicle along

12^th avenue

close to Bakers Inn. This traffic light lay on the ground for nearly three months. This is despite the fact that the robot is in the central business district of a city.

This raises the question that, ‘so what does the local authority prioritise?’ Road accidents are claiming a lot of lives but the city council is not making an effort to reduce them. BCC please do something about this. Remember you must serve the public first.