Tag Archives: 2010 Fan Walk

I love it when a plan comes together

13 June 10 8 Comments

“I love it when a plan comes together” was one of the catchphrases of John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, a character in the popular 1980s TV-series, The A-Team. I felt like repeating it on Friday evening when I saw 20 000 people (the City of Cape Town’s official figure) using the Cape Town…

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Fan Walk will provide unique flavour to Cape Town’s World Cup

06 June 10 3 Comments

The Fan Walk, which connects the Cape Town Central City to the Cape Town Stadium, is based on an adaptation of the route followed by the Cape Minstrels or Kaapse Klopse every year for the traditional Tweede Nuwe Jaar (2nd January) carnival procession. In other words, it is a route…

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Cape Town Station – on track for 2010, but a lot more still needs to be done

23 May 10 2 Comments

The CT Station has been receiving its first major overhaul since it was built as an apartheid station in the early 1960s. I walked around the site a few days ago with colleagues from Intersite and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to look at the progress that

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Cape Town Station Square – unburied treasure

09 May 10 10 Comments

We haven’t quite yet begin to realise the future potential of the new Cape Town Station Square. Situated right in the middle of the Cape Town CBD, the construction of the new Square was initially driven by the need for a public evacuation area, so that the CT Station can conform to international transport safety…

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2010 Fan Walk takes shape

24 March 10 2 Comments

Last Monday, the CT stadium was put to the test as over 50 000 people took part in a Global Day of Prayer. Lesson one: don’t park your car near the stadium during a big event - drivers took hours afterwards to clear the area. Lesson two: take the shuttle from town. Even…

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Public spaces and places in the city come of age on Human Rights Day weekend

17 March 10 0 Comments

A large part of our time at the Cape Town Partnership and CCID  is spent on finding ways in which our public spaces can be used by and for citizens of this city. The multiple events taking place this coming Human Rights Day weekend point to a coming of age in…

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Non-motorised transport projects make progress

16 March 10 0 Comments

The shift from car-dominated to a people-oriented Central City took another step forward this week with the announcement by the City of Cape Town of new non-motorised transport projects in Adderley, Shortmarket and Bree Steets. These will complement the work already being done in Waterkant Street and Somerset Road to…

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2010 Fan Walk takes shape

01 March 10 0 Comments

The 2010 FIFA Football World Cup Fan Walk in Cape Town is taking shape. This is the route that creates a pedestrian-priority route from the CT Station in the CBD to the CT Stadium to be used by an estimated 18 000 fans on match days.

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Things to see in Green Point on an early morning bike ride

23 January 10 3 Comments

On Saturday morning, I cycled around the Green Point Common area (Fan Walk, IRT Station, pedestrian underpass, CT Stadium, Granger Bay Boulevard, Urban Park) to investigate the car-free recreational cycling opportunities and to check the progress of all the 2010 developments in the area.  The date (23 January) was particularly

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