This vehicle, registration number: FDT 821 EC, was spotted on the Pedestrian crossing between the Boardwalk and Hobie Beach on Marine Drive on 09/11/2012 at around 12:15 pm.
And you said that our Traffic Cops didn’t stop Taxis!
Colour me bloody impressed is all I can say.
So FDT 821 EC stops on the pedestrian crossing between the Boardwalk and Hobie Beach on Marine Drive. Much hooting ensues so the miscreant sloooooowly proceeds another 100 metres and comes to another stop for passengers.
Oomie in an old white merc has a fit and hoots like mad finally passing taxi idjut.
A slick looking GTi pulls alongside the taxi and I see gesticulating arms. As the GTi drives away slowly, so waar as wragtig, the taxi begins reversing back to the traffic lights and pedestrian crossing. Black GTi sees this and does a U-Turn.
I am thinking to myself; “Now here comes great sport and someone is gonna get bliksemed!”
Black GTi pulls up behind the Taxi and out gets A TRAFFIC OFFICER who proceeds to encourage the taxi driver to bring his papers and have a chat with him.
All I can say to the traffic officer is; “Well bloody done, you made me smile for hours on end today and thank you!”
Originally submitted to MyPE by: Alan Straton
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This photo should be worth a fortune – I have not seen a traffic orifice actually work, in years. This bloke will soon be fired for making the other 300 PE orifices look bad…
I hope not – he should immediately be placed in a uniform with blue leggings, a red over(under)pant, gold belt and a great big SC (for SuperCop) emblazoned on his chest.
I felt that something like this – http://mype.co.za/new/2012/11/port-elizabeths-supercop/ – was called for.
It seems that spot has become a new “bus stop” for taxi’s to fetch passengers. As a habit now I always go into the right hand lane long before I get to that intersection, and on days where there is no taxi there I am surprised! There are certain hotspots in PE that the Traffic Dept can make their full years quota in a week or two if they stationed an officer there!