Dear Sir

I have noticed that the Economist was very vocal about road safety. At that time, around December last year, there was a visible improvement in law enforcement. But I am afraid, we are stuck again in our earlier complacency.

As a daily user of Windhoek's taxis, I am scared every single day by the complete disregard taxi drivers have for the law. This situation will only see a permanent solution once law enforcement is directed at taxis in a focussed and targeted manner. Why is it necessary to stop dead in a lane of moving traffic? The driver can pick us up just as well after pulling off the road first. Why is it necessary to skip red traffic lights as if it is normal? Can taxi drivers not read? How did they get their licenses? Bribed the Natis officials or what? Taxi drivers take our money and some our lives also.
I am fed up with depending on a transport system that does not care about our safety and that of other people. I demand that the Windhoek City Police look at taxi drivers. I do not want us to wake up again when it is too late. Remember all the crashes before we saw we had a crisis.

Patrick Hainguru
Katutura
(Letter shortened and edited- Ed.)