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…
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.…
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…
The Cape Town Fan Walk has become one of the talking points of Cape Town’s World Cup experience. The editorial in today’s Cape Argus described it as a ‘masterstroke’. John Robbie of 702 Talk Radio asked me yesterday to what we as a city owed the success of the Fan…
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As part of our efforts to make the Cape Town Central City more navigable for tourists (and local suburbanites!) during the 2010 World Cup, the Cape Town Partnership and CCID asked Chip Snaddon, well known local cartoonist and illustrator at the Cape Argus, to draw us a humerous guide which showed,…
Tired of English outbursts, French tantrums, Italian dives in the penalty area and Brazilian handballs? Take a moment to visit a new art exhibition called The Lie of the Land, on at the Old Town House in Greenmarket Square.
The exhibition, which is curated by Michael Godby, consists of diverse…
On one of the most beautiful winter days in Cape Town that I can remember, it was wonderful to take a break from football action to explore Signal Hill for a few hours. Even though I’ve been walking the Fan Walk, I certainly needed the exercise after many tense moments in front of the TV (Yes,…
Cape Town will never be the same again. Not after the experience of the World Cup. I’m not talking about the infrastructure legacy, or the new facilities created, or the worldwide exposure for Cape Town as a destination. I’m talking about the way in which our attitudes to using the city…
The City of Cape Town estimates that an astounding 350 000 people visited the Cape Town Central City area on Friday 11 June to watch the World Cup Opening Ceremony and Bafana Bafana-Mexico game on TV and to attend the opening match at the CT Stadium, with 250 000 in…
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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