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Ramp Metering Implementation - 26th September 2007


Just a quick post; I picked up the pamphlet they were handing out at the New Road on ramp explaining the new ramp metering they’ve implemented to try and curb congestion on the highway. The Go-Live date is set for the 26th September 2007 and the roads affected are:

Samrand, only south bound
Rooihuiskraal, only south bound
New […]

How to pay your traffic fines online


Being pulled over by the police is generally never fun or done at an appropriate moment although experience has taught me to be jovial and attentive because a cop in a bad mood is far worse to have to deal with than a cop who’s just doing his job.  Anyways, I was pulled over yesterday […]

South Africans love Facebook


Are you on Facebook?  The rest of South Africa is, as there are nearly 120,000 members on the South Africa regional group in Facebook (and those are the ones that joined the group).  Now back in 2005 the South African Census counted 35,000 developers in the country (that’s people who called themselves a developer, be they Java, […]