malvernmugadzikwa
Online Reporter
GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, has stopped trade and other commercial activities being carried out alongside servitudes of trunk roads.
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development is empowered in terms of Section 48 of the Roads Act (Chapter 13:18) to regulate and restrict any form of commercial activities along road servitudes under its administration.
Said the Ministry in a statement: “No person shall, without the written permission of the Department of Roads, carry on any trade or expose, offer or manufacture for sale any goods on a road or in any area alongside a road within a distance of 60 metres from the boundary of a road or any area within 500 metres from any point of intersection without prior approval.”
Meanwhile, the Ministry said it is also undertaking a thorough audit of all billboards erected in urban areas, with the view to declutter the roads and remove all illegal billboards for safer and trafficable roads.
Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter