Even if you leave your house an hour earlier, someone who leaves at the same time is bound to arrive in Lobatse before you get to your office just within Gaborone. I do not want to dwell on the politics of who is not doing their job, but that someone is in utter slumber, is out of question. It is annoying when grown men and women fail to use not only their expertise but just common sense to get things done and done properly. Even morons can see the alarming growth of motor population in our country. Even my three year old son knows motor vehicles require roads to travel on. It's a shame when grown men and women who supposedly spent many years at universities learning what infrastructure is needed for a fast growing city like Gaborone fail to fathom that the increase of motor vehicles require the increase of accessible roads. It is no secret our country has become a dumping site for used Asian cars and the authorities here ought to know that one of the implications that come with the flooding-in of these cars is the ability of our roads to accommodate them.
They should stop operating like Botswana Railways, which sells passenger tickets without consideration to their locomotive carrying capacity. The city council should shift its energies from terrorising informal traders and put its efforts on rehabilitating and constructing roads that will handle the influx of motor cars. More than 40 years of its existence and the city council still doesn't have an impressive road network. By now our roads should be in a state where you need not pass through the city centre if you drive from say Block 9 to Tlokweng. I will not even entertain lack of space or land as an excuse because just next door we have roads crisscrossing on top of each other. The problem I see with our authorities here is complete lack of vision. They believe in constructing small infrastructure with the hope of extending as and when the need arises. But then again they are never ready to provide such extensions when demand beckons. Please, whoever you are that is in charge of the roads infrastructure in Gaborone, it's about time you abandoned playing solitaire and surfing Facebook because you have a mammoth of task in as far as our roads are concerned. This situation of our crowded roads is not helped by the fact that almost all Gaborone residents stay at one side of the city and work at the other. This problem is also made worse by people who drive absent-mindedly. Someone would be leading the pack at the traffic lights and when the green light signals him or her to proceed they would still be in their deep thoughts. If only people could stop thinking about their personal problems (I know it's difficult) and concentrate on the road. Our overzealous traffic officers are not helping the situation either.
