So the City of Cape Town wants to extend Uys Krige Drive (old Hendrik Verwoerd Drive).
This post is taken from the Loevenstein Residents Association Facebook Page:
This post is taken from the Loevenstein Residents Association Facebook Page:
"IMPORTANT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION MEETING - 12 JUNE 2013 7PM VELODROME - You may not know this, but the City of Cape Town are trying to push through the extension of Uys Krige/Hendrik Verwoerd to be a 4-lane road all the way through Loevenstein, Hoheizen, the Stellenbosch University Campus to join up with Carl Cronje. This would be a severe blow to our area, as this will immediately bring a lot more traffic as well as be another access route for criminals accessing our area. The truth of the matter is that the half-diamond on/off ramp at Carl Cronje was already approved by the City to handle the extra traffic, but now suddenly is too expensive for the developer of the proposed Galleria development at the Velodrome and an alternative route needs to be developed. Why should we be affected by this? We don't want all the extra traffic through our area. Uys Krige is already a nightmare in peak hours with people using this as an alternative to the N1. With this proposal, this is to become dramatically worse. I would like to urge as many people as possible to attend this meeting to make our votes count against this. Can we count on you???"
The part where it concerns me (not that the whole thing doesn't concern me..) is where they want to put a main road straight through my quiet suburb of Hoheizen. This will destroy the park where I played as a child and would hope my children would one day play. It will drop property prices drastically too. The extension will also go through the property of the Alta du Toit School which provides specialised education for people with intelectual disabilites.
There are no through roads there currently, so as such, there is no reason for random people to be walking around our neighbourhood (although they still do). While crime is present (we were robbed at gunpoint in our home two years ago and there have been numerous other incidents in our quiet area), with this extension it can only increase.
Needless to say, I will be present this evening to have my voice heard.
I will update again after the meeting.
Hope to see you too.
N.
The part where it concerns me (not that the whole thing doesn't concern me..) is where they want to put a main road straight through my quiet suburb of Hoheizen. This will destroy the park where I played as a child and would hope my children would one day play. It will drop property prices drastically too. The extension will also go through the property of the Alta du Toit School which provides specialised education for people with intelectual disabilites.
There are no through roads there currently, so as such, there is no reason for random people to be walking around our neighbourhood (although they still do). While crime is present (we were robbed at gunpoint in our home two years ago and there have been numerous other incidents in our quiet area), with this extension it can only increase.
Needless to say, I will be present this evening to have my voice heard.
I will update again after the meeting.
Hope to see you too.
N.
