A deep trench in African Street which was dug up by the Makana Municipality to fix a burst water pipe has caused a month-long traffic hazard may soon be filled.
A deep trench in African Street which was dug up by the Makana Municipality to fix a burst water pipe has caused a month-long traffic hazard may soon be filled.
Makana Municipality communications officer, Yoliswa Ramokolo, said the delay was due to the delay in the delivery of replacement pipe and the discovery that the burst pipe had been entwined with an electrical cable.
However, Ramakolo said the replacement pipe had now arrived and that the municipality would attempt to extricate the electrical cable, fill the hole and retar the street from Friday.
"We will attempt to fix all of that in order to prevent a hazard," she said.
Meanwhile, the cordoned-off hole continues to block a large chunk of one lane of the road causing dangerous traffic snarl-ups.
Rhodes third year BComm student Bonginkosi Koza, who lives in the nearby Aquitaine Way Flats, said visitors and flatmates with cars had not been able to enter and exit easily as they had to drive around this hole.
Pedestrians were unable to walk on the pavement as it was piled up with rubble from the roadworks.
"We are forced to go around the cordoned area in the road with speeding cars," Koza said.
