The City of Cape Town’s Transport Directorate has been renamed Urban Mobility. The name change became effective on Tuesday, 1 February 2022, to reflect not just the provision of transport services, but also access to transport, which requires greater collaboration with the national and provincial government and private sector.

‘Urban Mobility can be defined as Cape Town’s cardiovascular system. We need healthy arteries where the lifeblood moves without blockages and the integrated public transport system – from trains to buses to minibus-taxis and e-hailing services – acts as the beating heart that connects people with opportunities.

‘Our road networks must enable business activity and job creation. Transport services must keep us moving, and ensure goods and services are delivered. Capetonians must be able to move, efficiently, and be spoilt for choice when it comes to commuting, be it for work or leisure. Also, these choices must be affordable and sustainable. It is simple: the more mobile our people, goods, and services, the better our chances of economic recovery during and post Covid-19. Productivity, job creation, and investment go hand in hand with an efficient, well-run, and reliable transport system.

‘Urban mobility is more important than ever. This is why we have changed the focus of this Directorate beyond transport, to indicate that we need to work closer with other spheres of government, and partners in the private sector to achieve greater connectivity across Cape Town,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, Councillor Rob Quintas.

During this term of office, the City will keep on working to achieve a wide offering of transport services that are affordable, accessible, reliable, and a pleasure to use. The return of the N2 Express service in conjunction with the N2 Company to Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha later this month, is the first big milestone on this journey.

Multiple road maintenance projects are under way across Cape Town to ensure the road network is safe and reliable, as are efforts to make it easy and safe for residents to walk to destinations, or to cycle, where the conditions are conducive.

‘We must also make it easy for commuters to transfer from one mode – be it rail, minibus-taxi, the MyCiTi bus service, e-hailing services, or non-motorised-transport – to another. The reliability of transport services must improve, and most importantly: transport costs must come down, in particular for lower income households. The more efficient our public transport services, the more cost-effective it will be. Meaning, commuters will be paying less to get to jobs and schools. Ideally, we need a single-ticketing system for all modes of transport, with one integrated schedule and this is where closer collaboration is needed with other partners in this space in particular,’ said Councillor Quintas.

Source: City Of Cape Town