Dear Editor,
Almost every day I have to stop tourists from entering Hotelsteeg in forbidden direction and/or help them reverse out of that street after having entered via the forbidden direction. This can be avoided if the correct signage is in place.
This is one example, but I believe that with cooperation between the Ministers of Justice and VROMI [Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure – Ed.] and the Chief of Police along with the head of the Police Traffic Department a lot can be done to regulate the motorised traffic situation in our country.
Every time I drive over Walter Nisbeth Road I ask myself “Am I the only person who is ashamed of the layout of the bus stops along that road? Should those snacks along that road be that close to the road with traffic. Why are the majority of those bus stop huts so close to light poles? And why are they not laid out so that the buses can drive off the road?”
On the side of G.E.B.E all the way on to the Bernhard bridge with the exception of a few houses there are all businesses. On the other (pond) side of Nisbeth Road, shoppers park in order to do their shopping. I believe a suggestion to lay out a few more pedestrian crossings along that part of Nisbeth Road is not farfetched.
Not maybe, I am sure that if these measures are taken, the buses will be obliged to only stop at bus stops and so will the people who wait for the bus. Consequently the traffic over Nisbeth Road will flow more smoothly.
In the past I spoke to some influential people and suggested that government should coordinate with business owners (who as we know depend on the shoppers) to help get things like road markings, etc., financed. I was told that government doesn’t work so.
But I continue to see our road infrastructure continue to deteriorate, and I also do not think that those businesses along those roads are doing that badly.
Russell A. Simmons
