Improvement in Joburg traffic lights
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba says interventions to address traffic light downtime is starting to show positive results.
Mashaba says this improvement follows the implementation of the City's 'No Joints Policy' earlier this year.
The mayor says has managed to reduce the high incidence of signal downtime at the most critical high volume intersections in the City.
"The policy did way with the joining of old cables whenever an electrical fault was reported at a downed traffic light. Instead, these damaged cables would be replaced with new cables," Mashaba says.
"During the 2016/17 financial year which ended in June, 89 intersections were re-cabled and are now joint free."
Mashaba says there has been an 18 percent reduction in the average number of daily traffic light faults between November 2016 and June 2017, a 60 percent improvement in the average time taken to repair faults, excluding faults caused by power outages and a 55 percent reduction in the average traffic light downtime per day.
"Power outages remain a major contributor to traffic signal downtime, constituting 50 percent of the daily faults reported. Increased interaction between JRA, City Power, and Eskom is being prioritised to address this issue," Mashaba says.