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ETENI - AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN

15/01/2019 00:53:00 The Editor

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Sir,

An overhead bridge is one of the more advanced ways of crossing over oncoming traffic, which eventually eases the tension and stress of being hit by oncoming cars or tension of endangering your life in the process.

Eteni Main Bridge is a completely different scenario as the bridge which was built to keep pedestrians safe has now become an ‘Accident waiting to happen’.
One reporter from the Times of Swaziland said this bridge is used by more than 20 000 pedestrians per day.

The floor of the bridge hangs on a simple thread while the rods responsible for holding it are crookedly shaped. After two trucks rammed onto one side of the bridge over the traffic going to Mahhala, and my suspicions are to the effect that they never fixed it and if they fixed it a shoddy job was done.

Walking

Walking on that bridge (Eteni) is as similar as walking amongst a herd of hungry lions and expecting to be alive at the end of the day.
Walking on a suspended platform (bridge) is one of the scariest experiences one could ever experience. Now think about walking on a bridge with a flapping floor not because it was built that way but because it was now faulty, it’s a ticking time bomb I tell you.

Children use that bridge, workers from the industrial area cram that bridge every morning and evening and as things stand someone will eventually fall from that bridge.

As I see it, that bridge will not hold on any longer and it’s a danger to the nearby communities. I don’t want to believe the necessary authorities were never contacted in good time but what I do believe is that when someone is lost because of that bridge those responsible will have to answer not only to authorities but all stakeholders involved. We use that bridge on a daily basis and every one can see that surely this is ‘an accident waiting to happen.’

Siphiwo Jeshurun Lushaba
siphiwolushaba@gmail.com