What are your thoughts on the metro’s plans to rename major roads and landmarks?
Germiston residents reveal to the GCN what the metro should be doing with the funds it plans to spend on street name changes.
The metro’s plans to rename major roads and landmarks in the city.
Johannes Ledwaba: “Even though it will just be for a few months, the process of implementing these changes will help a few unemployed people earn an income.”
Bongiwe Zondi: “It does not matter to me what a street is named, what matters is the quality of the roads we have and the maintenance of those roads.”
Raymond Atherton: “Spending millions of rands on changing street names will not help benefit the people of this city. Unemployment is on the rise and the metro must intervene.”
Lesedi May: “There are people living in informal settlements without proper shelter and the metro is focusing on street name changes. People want housing not new street names.”
Yonela Sodinga: “The funds set aside for such a process can be spent on housing or free education, things which have been promised to us in the past.”
Stefan Labuschagne: “The metro must focus on decreasing poverty in the city, as well as cleaning up our parks and installing restrooms and taps in our parks.”
