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Lifetime Bluff resident serving his third term in office as representative
of the area. Member of the Democratic Alliance.
of the area. Member of the Democratic Alliance.
This weeks Councillor comments
| Duncan Du Bois |
You can contact Councillor D Du Bois by e-mail @ dubois@axxess.co.za
Phone:467-0343 or mobile:083 291-4913
Municipal Manager - Dr Sutcliffe: Tel 311-2130 ;
SutcliffeM@durban.gov.za
SutcliffeM@durban.gov.za
Report dumping or unauthorised use of verges; Phone 311-7448
Metro All-Call / All hours Tel No.: 361-0000
Metro Police: Tel 402-0680
Brighton Beach SAPS: Tel 451 8060 / 8059
Brighton Beach Community Policing Forum Chairman: Carl Knauff : 082 449-6503
Metro All-Call / All hours Tel No.: 361-0000
Metro Police: Tel 402-0680
Brighton Beach SAPS: Tel 451 8060 / 8059
Brighton Beach Community Policing Forum Chairman: Carl Knauff : 082 449-6503
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BLUFF IS A HOSTAGE OF BOOM AND TRANSFORMATION
Letters published in the SUN over the past two weeks have expressed dismay about issues ranging
from trucks and traffic hazards to litter and road excavation on the Bluff. Whilst one shares and fully
acknowledges these concerns, there needs to be a wider perspective on the times in which we live.
Essentially the Bluff is a hostage of economic boom times and transformation.
On the one hand we should be grateful that infrastructure is being renewed. This has been evident
in the R40 million project that saw kilometres of new electricity cable laid beneath our main roads
and two new sub-stations built. Power outtages have certainly been far fewer than experienced during 2005.
Sapref is busy laying new fuel pipelines - a task which, once completed next year, won't be necessary again
until about 2047. Telkom is also renewing its cable network. Metro Water has budgeted to accelerate the
replacement of old asbestos pipes whose age is the cause of so many pipe bursts.
The price of renewal and improvement is disruption and inconvenience in the short term.
The price of stagnation is terminal deterioration and decline.
The downside of economic boom is the surge in heavy transport on our roads. With container traffic growing
16% per annum, the Bluff, as a peninsula whose main access roads fringe much of the harbour's wharf
area, unfortunately has become a hostage of that development. At the most, Metro Police can only attempt to
service the congestion that the boom in container traffic causes every day on Bayhead and South Coast
Roads and on Edwin Swales VC Dve.
representation to Transnet and its CEO, Maria Ramos, on this is a matter of public record and may be
viewed on my Councillor's Corner website.
viewed on my Councillor's Corner website.
Letters published in the SUN over the past two weeks have expressed dismay about issues ranging
from trucks and traffic hazards to litter and road excavation on the Bluff. Whilst one shares and fully
acknowledges these concerns, there needs to be a wider perspective on the times in which we live.
Essentially the Bluff is a hostage of economic boom times and transformation.
On the one hand we should be grateful that infrastructure is being renewed. This has been evident
in the R40 million project that saw kilometres of new electricity cable laid beneath our main roads
and two new sub-stations built. Power outtages have certainly been far fewer than experienced during 2005.
Sapref is busy laying new fuel pipelines - a task which, once completed next year, won't be necessary again
until about 2047. Telkom is also renewing its cable network. Metro Water has budgeted to accelerate the
replacement of old asbestos pipes whose age is the cause of so many pipe bursts.
The price of renewal and improvement is disruption and inconvenience in the short term.
The price of stagnation is terminal deterioration and decline.
The downside of economic boom is the surge in heavy transport on our roads. With container traffic growing
16% per annum, the Bluff, as a peninsula whose main access roads fringe much of the harbour's wharf
area, unfortunately has become a hostage of that development. At the most, Metro Police can only attempt to
service the congestion that the boom in container traffic causes every day on Bayhead and South Coast
Roads and on Edwin Swales VC Dve.
representation to Transnet and its CEO, Maria Ramos, on this is a matter of public record and may be
viewed on my Councillor's Corner website.
viewed on my Councillor's Corner website.
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