A delivery truck jack-knifed at the corner of High Street and Bathhurst Street, parking in three cars and bringing traffic to a near standstill for over half hour on Thursday 29 May.
A delivery truck jack-knifed at the corner of High Street and Bathhurst Street, parking in three cars and bringing traffic to a near standstill for over half hour on Thursday 29 May.
The truck, belonging to an unnamed courier company, was offloading furniture at Lewis Stores. The Grahamstown Branch Manager of Lewis Stores, Fabian Elgar, blamed the municipality for the incident.
"The municipality and the traffic department should do more to ensure that businesses operating in this area run their businesses smoothly," he said.
Elgar said his business has an offloading zone that is only suitable for bakkie parking and that big trucks always struggle to park.
He said that the zones reserved for the trucks delivering to his shop, are mostly abused by customers shopping at the nearby retail shop, Clicks.
"The traffic department should introduce tough measures, such as fines, to those people abusing loading zones.
"There are five furniture shops in this block and parking for delivery trucks becomes a nightmare," he said.
Speaking to Grocott's on behalf of Russells furnishers, Joshua Doors and Barnetts, senior staff member, Zama Twaku, said the amalgamated shops have not experienced similar problems.
“All our shops haven't had this problem. Russell’s has its own parking bays behind the store at the back yard, so the big trucks enter at the back".
Twaku said it is only the flat-bed bakkies and medium-sized trucks that park in front of the shop and had not experienced any trouble.
Municipal comment was not available at the time of publishing.
