Joburg traffic hits new low

Last Wednesday, traffic was nightmarish if you were trying to get out of Blairgowrie onto Jan Smuts.

- KEVIN RITCHIE

It wasn't just the people in the Johannesburg northern suburb that were affected by delays that stretched for more than an hour just to transit or exit the suburb; people heading south into town were caught in it.

People heading north were caught up in it, too.

We are not at Cape Town levels of congestion yet, but last week was a new low for Joburg.

And it was all because the traffic lights on Jan Smuts that were functioning were out of sync.