Plunder of roadside
safety barriers grows
December
29, 2014 | Filed under: News,Top News, | Posted by: Allan Williams
DANGER
POINT: The railing on the M4 freeway at the Albany Road off-andon-ramphas
systematically disappeared over the past months Picture Eugene Coetzee
KILOMETRES
of steel and aluminium railings along Nelson Mandela Bay’s freeways have been
stolen.
This
not only puts a financial burden on the municipality’s distressed coffers but
also poses a serious danger to public safety.
Unchecked
scrap metal and second-hand dealers are fuelling the plunder of the
infrastructure.
Thieves
have also resorted to stealing drain covers to pawn to scrap-metal dealers.
Municipal
spokesman Mthubanzi Mniki said the metro was fighting a losing battle, with
incidents of theft daily and the problem rearing its head at different
locations with alarming regularity.
Mniki
estimated damage caused stood at more than R1-million.
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