More pot holes in Bulawayo

      Minister of Transport Obert  Mpofu and other officials watch the pot holes being filled up early this month in the city center.

It was a moment of joy for  the people who drive when the minister of Transport announced that no more pot holes in the city of Bulawayo.The joy kept on increasing when people were seen at work in the city center filling these pot holes that had made driving a living hell.The picture above even indicates a proud minister showing off a pot hole filler at work between third avenue and Robert Mugabe street.

The city was promised well maintained roads with no pot holes and millions of money was said to have been invested in this project.To be precise the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) gave the city council 1,2 million from the million allocated for the city roads according to Bulawayo.com.

Such a huge amount meant the city of Bulawayo in just a month would be having proper tared roads and the high density ones had to be graded,leveed  until there we in proper conditions.But look at this picture extracted from http://www.herald.co.zw/bulawayo-city-council-struggles-to-rehabilitate-st,it is showing something totally different.

                                                                                                                    degrading road in pumula
However,very few roads were maintained and those maintained are degrading slowly living not just pot holes but pools in the middle of the roads.This is a bit disturbing as we are wondering what     happened to the money allocated for the road maintenance.

what is a bit shocking is that the council according to The Chronicle, is asking for extra  funds amounting to $450 000 so that there can finish up the project which has since stopped because of lack of funds.Should we blame the rains to the degrading of the roads b or the poor material used?Do we blame road users that there are reckless in their road use or we blame Zinara for withholding some of the funds allocated to the project.I don't want to take sides but will leave you to decide on who is wrong here and making our lives as road users a living hell.

No more potholes in Bulawayo-Obert Mpofu declares

Published: 15 January 2015

 Potholes in Bulawayo could be a thing of the past if an initiative launched today is fully carried out.

 Transport Minister, Obert Mpofu, Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara), Bulawayo City council officials this morning launched a pothole patching drive that will target all potholes within the Central Business District

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