Cape Town wants emptier roads – This is how it’s going to make it happen

WollieVerstege said:
Well, have to say there are massive upgrades happening in the Brackenfell/Bottelary Road area in anticipation of the new Industrial Area going up, but ja, about 5 years to late.
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You mean "massive". It's basically the road between that new mall and Soneike. That's not nearly enough. That whole area is fckd in terms if traffic.
 
Koos Custodiet said:
There's a primary school in the middle of Boston Bellville. Called Boston Primary, nogal.

Go count the white faces on the playground.
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The DA is in charge of education in Western Cape, the SGB is in charge of the school.

Any discrimination would be at thier hands.
 
rh1 said:
The DA is in charge of education in Western Cape, the SGB is in charge of the school.

Any discrimination would be at thier hands.
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This whole thread is about traffic in Cape Town, where the DA is indeed in charge.

What's your point?
 
Koos Custodiet said:
This whole thread is about traffic in Cape Town, where the DA is indeed in charge.

What's your point?
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Apologies, the derailment from roads to schools, was from another poster and I responded to that and you responded to me, and here we are.

My point is that DA which is supposedly a non-racists party is enforcing discriminatory paractices in schools in the Western Cape, which is straight from the ANC playbook.
 
Lockdown showed us the way. Extremely short sighted of companies to revert to WFO policies...
 
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Took the new train home from work (Southern line) the other day, the new trains are ok, they're still too full and 20 mins apart during peak, but they've got AC and security now, it's still not the Gautrain, but it hey it's only R7.50!
 
rh1 said:
My point is that DA which is supposedly a non-racists party is enforcing discriminatory paractices in schools in the Western Cape, which is straight from the ANC playbook.
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The DA is good with blowing its own horn, rah rah look how good we are, but inside they are... eish, OK, they are better than the ANC. That's all they actually end up claiming, and that's what they are.

But they could do a whole lot better.
 
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SeRpEnT said:
"Raymond Maseko, the Regional Manager of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), spoke about how a train could accommodate as many as 1,200 people, which could theoretically remove 1,200 single-occupant cars from the roads."

Or a/bout 10 taxis....
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80 taxis
 
MrGray said:
They have never even managed to extend the MyCITI into the southern suburbs, let alone the south peninsula and the only southern train line has stations at inconvenient locations with barely any parking available.

So, yeah, lecture me on using public transport when you actually have safe and convenient options available. At least this person seems to understand this: “We can only charge congestion tax when public transport is at its optimum,” said Quintas. Which most likely means effectively never, because we all know that any expansion to the MyCITI or rail infrastructure gets violently opposed by the violent taxi mob.
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Cape Town has reduced MyCiti availability since COVID. Despite this, the city says that it will increase train availability if given control.
 
FiestaST said:
I’m sure the CT okes will concur since the last few years it been get worse & worse.

This month in particular it seems no matter what time you leave you’re in a jam.

I just opened my feed & I see this that proves the point, the comments all backs it up as well.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1894418001060909076
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I'm damn glad I no longer have to get stuck in traffic. A 2 hour daily commute was hell.
 
This is what you get for voting DA. They threw billions at public transport like dumbasses only to have it all destroyed. And no, their new scheme is also going to fail. They should tax all companies that does not allow WFH for employees that can WFH. Make it 1 bar per year for every employee.
 
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