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Article: Chaotic traffic marred wonderful race day.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mercury (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2006
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Just a short note to congratulate the organisers on a wonderful day's racing at the Durban July. It was truly enjoyable and showed that Durban has what it takes to organise events well.
What a pity it was marred by the chaotic traffic getting there. It took us two hours and 15 minutes to get into the course from Umhlanga Rocks - normally a 20-minute trip.
There was no noticeable notification that the main route to the parking, DLI Avenue, would be closed on the Berea side. At that closure, there were plenty of traffic police rudely waving people past ...