In response to Green is for go, but Metro wants it slow, week ending 11 April.
So, Wayne Minnaar doesn’t understand why Metro police directing traffic in their brightly coloured reflective jackets are not visible to motorists? Does Minnaar even drive a car? It may surprise him to find out that the average traffic officer is smaller than the average car (admittedly not always by much) and that in peak hour traffic, one’s line of sight is by definition obscured by the vehicle(s) in front of you. Add that to the lack of flashing traffic lights as a warning, and this sounds like a tragic accident waiting to happen.
Of what use is the reflective jacket going to be to a traffic officer that has been knocked down? Instead of entertaining us with more facile, ridiculous statements, Minnaar would be well placed to listen to the concerns of motorists and act on them. How difficult can it be to warn motorists that there are Metro police officers at the intersection – in the same way we are made aware of Outsurance pointsmen by the banners on the side of the road approaching an intersection. As for leaving the traffic lights functional because they lose synchronicity with other traffic lights, I am speechless. If this is actually a real problem, then come up with a way of obscuring the traffic lights from motorists’ view, maybe with said banner warning of officers directing traffic.
