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Perverse outcomes? New bicycle lanes in Cape Town CBD add space for cars

I have been monitoring how the new bicycle lanes in Bree St in the Cape Town CBD are being utililised. In my view, the net effect has been to simply give more space to motorists for illegal parking (where they can now double park for free without obstructing the traffic flow) and for delivery vehicles …

Creativity alive and well and living in Cape Town

16 October 10 0 Comments

If you are interested in design trends, you need to get the new Creative Cape Town Annual, produced by Bell Roberts Publishing in conjunction with Creative Cape Town. You can flip through the pages here, or get hold of a hard copy from the Cape Town Partnership offices in Bree Street (call …

Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street

10 October 10 12 Comments

A popular tradition of the Cape Town Partnership AGM is to take our guests on development walking tours of the Central City after the formal business has been concluded. This year, there were four choices of tour: East City Design Initiative, Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 Bid, Public Transport Improvements, …

Where is the centre of Cape Town?

08 September 10 1 Comment

My colleague Iain Harris, who runs the popular Coffeebeans Routes (“We create contemporary, urban, African experiences that provide travellers deep insights into the places they choose to visit”) raised some provocative questions on his blog yesterday – Where is the centre of Cape Town? What happens if we move the existing city centre?…

Jay Walking in Cape Town

08 September 10 0 Comments

I spent an enjoyable two hours yesterday walking the streets of the city and talking about the history of Cape Town and South Africa with Lucie Pagé, an award-winning French-Canadian writer and journalist. Impatient with many travel guides to South Africa that still persist in starting with “In 1652, Jan …

Cape Town’s Bid to host 2011 UN Climate Change Conference

07 September 10 14 Comments

Cape Town is one of three South African cities bidding to host the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) towards the end of 2011. The fact that the event will take place in South Africa so soon after the 2010 World Cup is a major boost for our country.…

Cape Town’s Reclaim Camissa Project puts social media tools to good use

05 September 10 3 Comments

“CAMISSA, meaning ‘the place of sweet waters’ is the ancient Khoi name for Cape Town. Embedded, lost and obscured within the city’s fabric this vital ecological and cultural link still exists….”

The Reclaim Camissa Project, a citizen activation project to investigate, document and restore vital ecological and cultural heritage links between …

We’re on the road to nowhere…

30 August 10 5 Comments

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 …

Come rain or come shine… we walk the city to discover our history

28 August 10 2 Comments

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 …

Cape Town Fan Walk lives on

28 August 10 4 Comments

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 …

Cape Town’s Integrated Rapid Transit System takes shape

26 August 10 1 Comment

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 and running …

The ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age

07 August 10 5 Comments

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.…

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