The City’s Urban Mobility Directorate has commenced with a project to install new parking embayments and footways in the Brooklyn and Tijgerhof area to support ongoing efforts to improve road safety for all residents. The work is set to commence today, 27 February 2023, and is anticipated to conclude in May 2023.

This work forms part of ward allocations to provide traffic calming measures along the City's road network and is planned to take place from Monday to Friday between 07:00 and 17:00.

'Our intention with the traffic calming interventions is to make the roads safer for all road users, especially the most vulnerable among us like the learners in this area. With this project, these measures are often installed along roads that run adjacent to schools where we have a large number of pedestrians,' said Councillor Rob Quintas, the City's Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility.

Residents can expect traffic calming measures to be installed along the following roads:

• Da Gama Street, Brooklyn (opposite the church situated on the corner of Minnow Street and Da Gama Street)

• Koeberg Road (Between Lavis Crescent and Piet Grobler Street)

• Valentyn Road (opposite Tijgerhof Primary School)

The work at Valentyn Road will include an extension of the existing embayment as well as the installation of new footways from the end of the extended embayment to the pedestrian gate of school, as well as from the pedestrian gate to the vehicular gate of the school.

Surface excavations will be conducted in order to construct the embayments on Da Gama Street and Valentyn Road.

Traffic accommodation measures will be used during construction at all the sites, however road users are reminded to be cautious while work is under way.

Source: City Of Cape Town