The City of Cape Town is looking to keep its residents on the straight and narrow when it comes to our roads as it looks to implement a range of initiatives, including general road maintenance and new infrastructure for public transport.
COCT’s department of mobility has stated it will set aside around R6.4 billion in order to spend on the projects, which will take place over the next three financial years. Currently, R1.4 billion has been set aside for 2022/2023.
According to Mobility MEC Rob Quintas, the aim of these initiatives is to ensure commuters, goods, and services will keep Cape Town moving.
“Thus, this is money to be spent on new roads, traffic signals, congestion relief projects, new facilities for buses and minibus-taxis, and infrastructure related to the roll-out of the MyCiTi service in the metro-south east.”
One major plan its looking to implement in the next financial year is a new infrastructure for the launch of the MyCiTi service in the metro-south east. This is set to cost R667 million.
Commuters using congested roads such as the N1 will be happy to know that R192 million will be set aside to help alleviate congestion on Cape Town’s roads, while R99 million will be spent on transport facilities with minibus-taxi facilities included in the project, as per IOL.
“We want to ensure Capetonians have safe and durable roads with working traffic signals, and that we keep on expanding our road capacity to address congestion,” Quintas said.
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