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SA’s commuters trapped for two hours a day

12 December 2005

South African commuters - 26% of them - spend one to two hours a day stuck in traffic, while 33% sit for 30 minutes to an hour, according to a global market research company.

“A startling 66% reported that the times they leave for work and home have been affected by the chaos on the roads during peak time traffic,” Jon Salters, managing director of researchers Synovate Sub-Saharan Africa, told Sapa.

About 73% of those surveyed claim that traffic problems are mostly due to selfish and uneducated drivers, Salters is reported as saying.

The survey also found that:

  • More than half of the respondents said that there are not enough traffic police on the roads.
  • Four out of 10 believe it is the traffic police themselves that cause the problems.
  • The respondents also attributed the jams to rocketing private car ownership, and poor road infrastructure and planning.
  • Half the respondents complained about inadequate public transport.
Synovate's survey on traffic, with more than 5 500 respondents in South Africa, Hungary, Russia, China, Hong Kong, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), asked how many hours were spent in traffic every day and how behaviour changed to cope with the daily travelling.

“The high proportion of respondents who believe other drivers are to blame for the traffic problems may explain the high incidence of road rage in South Africa - the highest in the world,” Salters is reported as saying.



Source: Sapa




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