Johannesburg residents have also come up with creative ways to deal with the absence of traffic lights. Drivers flow through the intersection rather than having to wait several minutes at a light. Just note this video I shot during rush hour in the crowded Sandton business district. Drivers are more aware of their surroundings and slow down instead of speeding through lights.Įven in congested traffic, drivers seem to get places faster due to the lack of signals. Drivers and pedestrians cooperate the way they do at four-way stops. Just as in the U.S., a broken traffic light becomes a stop sign. Here’s what’s intriguing: Despite the lack of signals, roads seem to work better. Rampant theft of copper wire and scrap metal within those signals also means many don’t work even outside of scheduled load-shedding blackouts. Many Johannesburg businesses have generators that kick in during the blackouts, but public infrastructure such as traffic signals are turned off.
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