Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

Traffic Nightmares!

This peaceful circle at the end of Blaauwberg road…..

(off the record, I’ve always wondered why they never build a nice fancy fountain feature in the middle of this circle, it would have looked so much more spectacular than the existing  weird features.. comments?)

..Could end up looking like this…

Photo apparently taken from somewhere in China

Yep, according to this latest Cape Times report, families living on a farm close to Du Noon are holding up a R4billion road project that will solve all Blaauwberg traffic problems.

A R4-billion residential and commercial development which would create thousands of jobs, could be jeopardised because 27 families living on the site near Du Noon are reneging on an agreement to leave the land, the project’s developer says.

The land owner, Ronald Shell, said the families were tenants on Annandale Farm north of Bothasig and adjacent to the N7 highway, and had agreed to financial payouts to find other accommodation.

An agreement with the families signed in December stated that each household would receive either R55 000, or R25 000 and a Wendy House set up on a site of their choice.

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