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| Who says all traffic lights are bad? In Edendale, KwaZulu-Natal, at least one shed a rainbow. |
And why do traffic lights in even the smallest dorpie not go on the blink after 8 at night,
to become four way stop streets that are both more safer to avoid smash and grabs and saves fuel.Victory Traffic Facilites Engineering and Tata BP Solar have a solar-powered street light systems have been tried and tested in monsoon weather. To whit, Alibaba then lists a further 2 000 types of solar powered lights.
As for the thinking at four way stops, (yes rest of the word, we still have 'em) the dusty town of Mafikeng in the North West province had, in the 1990's already, yield signs at every four way stop street.
For there is really no reason for a left turning car to do more but slow down, check for oncoming traffic, and then ease into the flow - if indeed, there is any.
Sadly the traffic cop who sped up the flow of traffic in Mafikeng went on to an overseas job that was paid in Pounds Sterling. He was replaced by a stomach with a beard who "fought a traffic cop's job is to stop cars and write faains."
The municipalities who support the latter dumb traffis' thinking always plead poverty when asked to speed up the traffic flow with new blinking lights after hours and yields signs on four way stops.
This kind of short-term thinking shows why the municipal budgets are always in trouble..
At current fuel prices, a row of cars idling at all hours of the working day throughout a town amounts to hundreds of thousands of rands turned into exhaust fumes each month.
These are hundreds of thousands of rands that should have been spent in local shops, not turned into emissions that ruin the planet.
So, a heartfelt plea to the cousins in the firm that is currently pillaging the coffers of South Africa, viz Zuma Incorporated, can you okes now just decide which of the President's family members/friends/cronies will get the contract to replace traffic lights so that the rest of us can moving again!?
A citizen.
