And while we had the mayor we asked him whether pedestrians who jump the new barrier on the first one hundred yards of the northern highway will be charged for jaywalking. That's what we heard form the City's public relations officer last ngith when he said a Statutory instrument was being drafted to make jumping the barrier illegal.
They mayor says it is a problem - but they are not going so far - not yet at least.
Mayor Darrell Bradley
"Of course we have to put in measures if we realize that - that's a serious problem - persons jumping over the barricade or being unruly, then legislation will be there to ensure that we can ticket them - we can arrest them. That is not our primary focus at this point, the primary focus is just on a ease traffic management and we feel that the barricade is sufficient at this point."
Marion Ali, reporter
"When you deal with the ticketing process, won't it create a bottleneck in terms of getting all these people dealt with and on a timely manner?"
Mayor Darrell Bradley
"At this present moment there is no plan to ticket pedestrians. There is no plan on the ground where we are looking at a draft SI or where we are looking at anything like that."
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