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Sunday Mail Reporter
THE rehabilitation of traffic signals and streetlights by the Government and the Harare City Council (HCC) is expected to be completed this month.
HCC is set to rehabilitate 22 traffic lights and 500 streetlights across the city.
“We are targeting to complete by September 30. Works have commenced on all targeted roads and are at various stages. For example, trenching and cable laying were completed along Nelson Mandela Avenue, while pole planting and fittings installation will follow along Jason Moyo Avenue. Eighty-seven poles have been installed,” said City of Harare’s head of corporate communications Mr Stanley Gama.
“We are continuing after SADC (summit) until the planned works have been executed. All city works were commissioned last week (a fortnight ago), and a few things are left to be rounded up in the coming week, but so far, there is progress.
“Our target was to complete repairs and upgrades on 22 intersections in the central business district (CBD). Twenty out of 22 intersections have been completed.”
Some road intersections that have been down for a while, he said, are now up and running.
“Intersections such as Samora Machel/Emmerson Mnangagwa roads; Samora Machel/Simon Muzenda; Samora Machel/Julius Nyerere; Julius Nyerere/Robert Mugabe; (and) Julius Nyerere/Kenneth Kaunda are now back in service, ensuring smooth flow of traffic within the CBD.
“Contractors working on the dualisation of Sam Nujoma and Lomagundi roads are also installing new traffic signals on all controlled intersections on those roads
and are expected to complete the works within a week,” added Mr Gama.
“Nine intersections have been completed, and these are Samora Machel/Emmerson Mnangagwa; Samora Machel/Seventh Street; Samora Machel/Simon Muzenda; Julius Nyerere/Kenneth Kaunda; Charter, Harare Street/Bute; Mbuya Nehanda/Bank Street; Robert Mugabe/Kaguvi; Samora Machel/Julius Nyerere; and Nelson Mandela/Sam Nujoma.”
“In streetlighting, all three contractors are now on site. Two have managed to decommission the existing lights and are currently fabricating the poles at their workshops.
“Exodus and Company started decommissioning today (Thursday). We have attended to 20 out of the targeted 22; six are now functional and five have power supply faults, which Zesa (Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority) is working on.”
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