Road Extension Will Lead To Problems

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:

"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.

Feck and Arse - Rebecca Needs a Nose Job

Oh the Irony..
I was sitting at home when I heard a big smash. Our house is alongside the N1, so I could only imagine it was another accident. But it sounded big.

I decided to take a short drive down the road with my niece to have a look see. My intention was to add to her already awesome day (after visiting Charly's earlier). We couldn't see anything from the bridge, so I decided to turn into Boston where I could park on a quiet street and then take a walk up to the bridge to look.

While driving up Salisbury Rd I approached an intersection. My right of way. Stop street to the left and right.

Out of NOWHERE, a dude on a Suzuki decides to alter the front end of my car. He totally jumped the Stop Street and connected with the pavement. The first thing I heard, after checking that my niece was okay, was him shouting, "Dis my skuld, dis my skuld. Jammer. Fok dis seer". I went to check on him and thankfully he landed okay, just hurting his ankle.

Take me to the nearest plastic surgeon

That's going nowhere

He called a few people, I called a few people..it was all a bit surreal.

The folk who live on the corner were very helpful in keeping an eye on Megan while I waited for my mom to come and fetch her.

Called the ambulance for the kid, called the cops, who responded quickly and, of course, didn't need to call a tow truck. It just appeared out of nowhere. Outsurance were very helpful, except for the part where they can only assess my car next week. So I'll be sans car for a while yet. So irritating.

Going to be one of those weekends... Think Bike? Bugger that...#ThinkCar 

*I should explain. Rebecca is the name of my black i20. She was christened by my sister, Tracy. She is named Rebecca because she is Black and I got her on a Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday.

Instant Idiots, just add water

Why is it that a little bit of water can turn the most responsible of drivers into a bunch of blithering idiots?

Don’t get me wrong, I love Cape Town. And I love the rain, but add driving to the equation and you can count me out. My dormant road rage begs me daily for reasons to surface, so like Bruce Banner, it’s safer to distance myself from the madness.

Instead, I’ll be hiding out in Canal Walk till the traffic dies down, trying not to spend any money..a challenge in itself..

Oh well.

N