Three years to fix traffic lights in South Africa’s richest city

• The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport expects to take 36 months to complete the repairs and modernization of the province's traffic lights.
• The department is responsible for only 547 of the 4,500 signalised intersections in the province, and the programme will focus on restoring vandalised infrastructure, modernising existing traffic signals, and strengthening their protection and management.
• The omission of Pretoria and its surrounds from the priority list has been met with criticism, with some arguing that the city's traffic lights are among the worst in the country and that the department's decision is unfair to commuters.