Update: There was a good response to my original post on Cape Town’s unfinished freeways. Ella Smook wrote a follow up article in the Cape Argus on 01 September (see full story below), following which John Maytham picked up the debate on Cape Talk radio.
What do you think? Should the Foreshore Freeways be:…
I took a group of 25 international journalists on a walking tour of the Cape Town Central City this morning. The weather was awful, a typical wet Cape winter’s day, but true to our motto – we walk, come rain or shine – we set off in good spirits. The group is…
It wasn’t as big as the World Cup Fan Walk. Or as glamorous. But last night’s PSL double header at the Cape Town Stadium showed that the Cape Town Fan Walk is here to stay.
Of the 46 000 people that attended the match at the stadium, only 6 000 used…
The City of Cape Town announced deadlines for the implementation of phase one of the Integrated Rapid Transit System (IRTS) at a meeting of the Cape Town Partnership’s Central City Partners Forum this week.
The West Coast trunk route between Bayside Shopping Centre and the CBD/ Waterfront will be up…
The Cape Town Foreshore has been described as an ‘unhappy compromise’ resulting in series of ‘wind-blown stretches of asphalt and concrete, filled with car parks and roaring traffic, inaccessible to pedestrians.’* Yet on a still winter’s morning, in the early dawn light, on foot, the Foreshore can almost be beautiful.…
In 2008, the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town Partnership published the Central City Development Strategy – a framework to guide change and manage growth over the next ten years. We are currently reviewing and updating the strategy in light of the 2010 World Cup experience.…
Do you remember the popular zebra artworks dotted around public spaces in Cape Town during the World Cup? Well, they’ve now migrated to the Artscape Piazza on the Foreshore.
The 33 zebras form an exhibition entitled ‘Not all is Black and White’, by the World for All…
Citizens spontaneously reactivated the 2010 Fan Walk yesterday to say no to xenophobia and happy birthday to Nelson Mandela. Bravo to Charly’s Bakery for taking the lead, and to everyone who took part.
The Ubuntu Festival in Upper St George’s Mall was also a great success. The Festival, which focuses…
One Saturday morning, a few weeks ago, I took my youngest son, Angelo, for a robotics lesson in the East City. Hidden behind a pair of small red doors in Buitenkant Street, we stumbled upon a magical world of creativity at the Open Innovation Studio.
“Work. Learn. Share. Change the World.” This is the…
Jacquie Biess is a Capetonian who enjoyed the experience of walking the Fan Walk during the 2010 World Cup. Now she is doing it again for a cause.
On Mandela Day, Sunday, 18 July, Jacquie and her three daughters, all of Charly’s Bakery in the East City, will be on the…
One of the good things about hosting a large global event like the 2010 World Cup is the way we were able do things that previously seemed impossible. Like regular road closures to create safe pedestrian spaces, reliable public transport, dressing the city in bright colours, colourful wall murals and outdoor advertisements,…
What better place to say farewell to the 2010 World Cup than in Upper Long Street? I watched the gut-wrenching final between Holland and Spain with friends and family at Long Street Cafe.
Long Street has been the epicentre of the Cape Town late night World Cup party for the…
For sure, freeways?
Integrated Rapid Transport in Cape Town – no other alternative
Cape Town Station Square – unburied treasure
Bright lights, dark alleys*
I love it when a plan comes together
We’re on the road to nowhere…
Come rain or come shine… we walk the city to discover our history
Cape Town Fan Walk lives on
Cape Town’s Integrated Rapid Transit System takes shape
Whoops! Did someone perhaps jump the gun?
Rashiq Fataar: I am all for reconnecting the city to the sea but ...
dirk: i just had the privilege of seeing and walking the...
Comeau: Demolish and reroute them underground I say. It's ...
Andrew: Negotiations going well for all sites needed for t...
Rashiq Fataar: How are the negotiations progressing with regards ...
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