Taxis which routinely outrage other traffic by driving in the left emergency lane have gone a step further: they've started beating congestion by driving on the pavement.
In the past three weeks 25 fines have been issued to taxi drivers for driving on or over the painted island or on the pavement.
The hot spot this time was in Albert Road, Woodstock, where taxis regularly use the pavement as a third lane in peak-hour traffic.
City traffic spokesperson Merle Lourens said the authority had received several complaints about eight months ago and issued seven fines of R300 each.
When the Weekend Argus sent a query to the traffic department about taxis using the pavement as a third lane, Lourens said they had re-opened the complaint case and issued 25 fines for that area alone.
She said they had sent law enforcement teams to check any complaints from new areas.
Other hot spots around the city are Hospital Bend at the M3 and N2 junction where taxis drive in the emergency lane to beat a long line of traffic waiting to get on to Settler's Way leaving the city.
Another problem spot is the junction carrying incoming traffic from the M5 on to the N2, where cars and taxis drive up to the junction and then over a painted island and cut in front of other cars.
Lourens said traffic officers were deployed at all of the spots, but were not there every day as they had many complaints to tend to.
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