Cape Town launching first-of-its-kind reversible lane – How it works

This has been a reversable lane for quite a while but now just changing the way it works.
Perviously, it had set times to be used for inbound vs outbound traffic.
 
Good initiative, but they could've solved it in a simpler way.

How it works​

The new reversible lane system will allow MyCiTi buses to travel along the red lane towards the Cape Town CBD from 00h05 until 12h00 daily.

Thereafter, the lane will be closed between 12h00 and 13h00; and ot will reopen again at 13h00 to allow buses to drive in the opposite direction, from the Cape Town CBD to Blaauwberg, until midnight.

Digital notice boards on both sides will reflect “Open” and “Closed”, or both “Closed”, depending on the time of day.

We've used lane-directional traffic lights for about 15 years now and it changes dynamically depending on traffic - but mostly to assist rush-hour traffic into town in the mornings - and out of town in the evenings. In this pic it shows the centrelane having both directions as an option...and it can change while people are in the lane...like a stop & go...letting them through while barring it for cars behind them until they've made it all the way through before giving access to oncoming traffic.

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Absolute donkey spit. This is not new. There's a reversible MyCiti lane starting at Woodbridge island. Has been there for years.

Also too little space there to add another lane. Housing on one side, river on the other.
 
Gads. Back in the eighties in Pretoria we had the cops move the cones over one lane every afternoon to add an outgoing lane and back again I-don't-know-when to add an incoming lane for the next morning. "It's kind" must have a rather tight definition.
 
Lets hope they have back up power for those signs if loadshedding kicks in.
 
Gads. Back in the eighties in Pretoria we had the cops move the cones over one lane every afternoon to add an outgoing lane and back again I-don't-know-when to add an incoming lane for the next morning. "It's kind" must have a rather tight definition.
JHB had these many years ago too. Not cones but overhead lane closed/open signs.
 
And if a bus breaks down on that lane, the busses behind it are fscked...
 
Rubbish ...............Pretoria has had one for more than 50 years, Hendrik Verwoerd now Steve Biko dr

Gads. Back in the eighties in Pretoria we had the cops move the cones over one lane every afternoon to add an outgoing lane and back again I-don't-know-when to add an incoming lane for the next morning. "It's kind" must have a rather tight definition.

It's every Fridays now.
 
Good initiative, but they could've solved it in a simpler way.



We've used lane-directional traffic lights for about 15 years now and it changes dynamically depending on traffic - but mostly to assist rush-hour traffic into town in the mornings - and out of town in the evenings. In this pic it shows the centrelane having both directions as an option...and it can change while people are in the lane...like a stop & go...letting them through while barring it for cars behind them until they've made it all the way through before giving access to oncoming traffic.

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In a first-world country yes. Here in Africa we do things a little different
 
PE's Cape Road has the outer lanes switch between parking and driving lanes depending on the time. One side is for driving in the morning and parking in the afternoon and the reverse on the other side.
 
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