Cape bus, cycle corridor planned for Blaauwberg
1 Comment Published November 12th, 2008 in General News. Tags: bicycle, boundary road, city of cape town, cyclists, paarden eiland, pedestrians, spur.A portion of Koeberg Road will be included in the City of Cape Town’s proposed bus-and-bicycle corridor between the CBD and Table View, according to a draft report released on Tuesday.The public is invited to comment on the proposal to upgrade the stretch of Koeberg Road between Boundary Road and Blaauwberg Road, which would have a two-way bus-only road between the two carriageways, as well as a three-metre-wide roadside track for cyclists and pedestrians.
The city had already announced similar plans for roads between Cape Town Station and Boundary Road, including Old Marine Drive, the Paarden Eiland Rail Spur and the R27, as well as the R27 between Boundary Road and Blaauwberg Road.
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Related: Cape Town set for rapid bus system
Two key tenders for the construction of the bus rapid transport route from the city centre towards the West Coast have already been decided and, by 2010, will provide an all-year-round, seven-day service.
By early next year the public will be invited to help choose the architectural design for a number of bus stations which will be dotted along three key routes.
Eddie Chinnappen, executive director for transport, said the decision was an important one because the bus stations would impact architecturally on the city, given that there would be more than 100 of them once the R10-billion network was complete in about four years.
I think a two way cycle route should be constructed from the waterfront to tableview, For anybody who has cycled in Denmark or Holland you will realise what a pleasure this would be for locals and tourists, I am sure that 100’s of people would use the route to cycle to work reducing the traffic