Dis veral vroue wat onder die aggressiewe bestuurstyl van minibus-taxibestuurders op die Bottelarypad deurloop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 \u2019n noue ontkoming met \u2019n minibus-taxibestuurder op di\u00e9 pad is Natasha Burger van Brackenfell nou banger as ooit om daagliks daar te ry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burger het een oggend tydens spitsverkeer in die rigting van La Belleweg gery toe die voorval plaasgevind het. Sy het twee passasiers in haar voertuig gehad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVoor my was \u2019n groot, lang vragmotor wat die sirkel baie stadig ingegaan het om sy draai te kry. Ek was bewus van \u2019n wit afleweringsbakkie agter my. Ons albei het geweet die vragmotor gaan oor twee bane om die sirkel ry,\u201d s\u00ea Burger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSkielik links van my byna om die sirkel verskyn \u2019n taxi aan my linkerkant wat die vragmotor links wou verbysteek, maar rem aangeslaan het omdat die vragmotor so ver na links sy draai geneem het. Die volgende oomblik swaai die taxi toe regs na my kant toe. Ek was reeds baie na aan die vragmotor en wou loer of ek veilig verby kan gaan toe die taxi tussen my en die vragmotor van links af kom indruk het. Daar was seker \u2019n halwe meter tussen my en die vragmotor. Hy ruk toe \u2019n paar keer sy stuurwiel na my kant toe om my uit die pad te stamp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk ys om te dink wat sou gebeur het as hy my getref het. Ek sou voor die aankomende verkeer ingeskiet gewees het. Ek het geen twyfel dat hy dit doelbewus gedoen het nie. Hy wou my stamp. Die twee vroue saam met my in die kar het so groot geskrik, want dit was aan hulle kant. Die een s\u00ea as sy haar arm uitgesteek het, was dit morsaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToe die taxibestuurder sien hy kon nie in die klein spasie verby my druk nie, het hy links om die trok oor die sypaadjie gejaag. Ek het opgelet dat die voertuig agter my sommer spoed verminder het; hy het seker gesien hier kom \u2018n ongeluk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burger s\u00ea die ervaring was skrikwekkend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDis asof hy geen agting gehad het vir die feit dat hy my kon laat verongeluk nie. Dis ontstellend om te dink dat hy geen ontsag vir ander motoriste of sy eie passasiers se lewe het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ook An Roux, wat die Bottelarypad al 22 jaar tussen Brackenfell en Elsenburg ry, s\u00ea die pad is nou gevaarliker as ooit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn die afgelope drie maande is daar baie meer minibus-taxibestuurders en die meeste sal jou van die pad af druk as jy nie voor hulle padgee nie. Hulle jaag tot teen jou kar se agterstewe, en jy het geen keuse as om oor die geel of rooi lyn te beweeg nie. Dis baie gevaarlik, want daar is ook baie fietsryers en voetgangers op die pad wat so raakgery kan word. Ek is baie bang vir hulle en gee maar altyd pad. Hulle is intimiderend en sal vloek en skel as jy nie vinnig genoeg pad gee nie. Ek is baie bang vir hulle en s\u00ea maar ja en amen,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens haar stop die taxibestuurders ook nie by die Botfontein- aansluiting nie en ry sonder versuim oor die stopstraat voor aankomende verkeer in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHier is geen stopteken vir verkeer op die Bottelarypad nie, en motoriste moet uiters versigtig wees om nie in di\u00e9 taxi\u2019s vas te ry nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Albei vroue s\u00ea dat daar baie min wetstoepassing op die pad plaasvind, waar geen reg en orde gehandhaaf word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk ry elke dag die pad en sien bykans nooit \u2019n verkeersvoertuig op patrollie nie. Daar was vroe\u00ebr vanjaar \u2019n groot padblokkade by die Bottelary-aansluiting waar dosyne taxi\u2019s afgetrek is, maar dit was eenmalig,\u201d s\u00ea Roux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens haar is daar deesdae baie meer ongelukke op di\u00e9 pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar is ook baie jong studente, wat onervare bestuurders is, wat daagliks die pad Stellenbosch toe moet aandurf. Dis kommerwekkend om die minste te s\u00ea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kevin Jacobs, woordvoerder van die Stad Kaapstad se verkeersafdeling, s\u00ea daar is sedert Februarie vanjaar al 1 241 verkeersboetes aan taxi-bestuurders uitgereik, vir onder meer onpadwaardige voertuie, verkeersoortredings en taxi\u2019s wat sonder die nodige permitte ry. Volgens Jacobs is die boetes in spesiale operasies en ook daaglikse wetstoepassing uitgereik. In een operasie is daar ook 43 taxi\u2019s geskut. Die Stad se vervoertoepassingseenheid doen egter nie spoedvervolgings nie, s\u00ea Jacobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rhynhardt Bresler, wykraadslid vir Brackenfell en Kraaifontein en ook \u2019n lid van die Stad se veiligheidsportefeulje, s\u00ea motoriste kan in sulke gevalle soos bo beskryf \u2019n strafregtelike klag van roekelose en nalatige bestuur teen \u2019n taxibestuurder by die polisie open. 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