Traffic officers deserve applause

Our roads have not only become too small for the large volume of motorised transport, but the traffic light system, ever the casualty of bad and careless drivers is not working most of the time. Even when the lights are working, they are so badly synchronised that they may allow more vehicles from one side of the city and very few from another side, causing unbearable congestion.

To help the road users arrive safely and in time at their destinations, the Botswana Police Service has for sometime now posted traffic officers at congestion prone sections of busy roads such as roundabouts and traffic lights.  In sweltering heat; in biting cold; and in rainy weather, the officers continue to blow their whistles and signal for traffic to either go or stop.  How many of us ever take a minute to think about the danger these men and women place their lives in for us, is a question only individual road users can answer.