I work in Illovo and it is my routine to often go for walks or running in the afternoon around the area. That often includes walking or running through Dunkeld and Rosebank. Recently I've noticed that on Kent, Smits, Hume, Eastwood, and Cradock there are boom gates being installed and they seem to be putting up pedestrian gates too. This means that this area will probably become heavily restricted if not outright closed for everyone except residents. I'm extremely upset and outraged at this. This is a public road, and I'm not the only one who goes for walks and runs through this area. In the evening the area is filled with walkers and runners. Why are we just supposed to accept being locked out of a public road and thoroughfare? How was this approved, is there any way we can object to this? If suburbanites want to live in gated communities, why don't they cough up and live in private estates instead of restricting access to public roads.   submitted by   /u/ahmuh1306 [link]   [comments]