23SUB2/5/2019: Miss Meyer reported the following response was received:

Date: 18 January 2019
Subject: Traffic Calming Request, Rotterdam Road, Strandfontein
Ref: TNDS3030

I refer to your request for traffic calming in Rotterdam Road, Strandfontein. The City of Cape Town Traffic Calming Policy (CoCT) aims to protect the most vulnerable road users, where they occur in the largest numbers on a Class 4 Collector Street and/or Class 5 Local Street in a residential area in the vicinity of public facilities, with roads adjacent to and leading to schools being the primary focus of attention. This being the case, a systematic program is in place for the treatment of all educational facilities over the next few years as a priority, which will not permit Transport Network Development (TND) budget to be used for calming measures at other locations.

Speeding is a universal issue throughout the Cape Town metropolitan area and therefore cannot be used in its entirety to justify the need for traffic calming. The CoCT currently uses land use activity and crash history as a quantifiable objective in determining risk potential over the numerous traffic calming applications, which are currently being received on a daily basis. The desired outcome of this approach is to ensure a sustainable programme for the provision of traffic calming measures that is more responsive to critical road safety problems that arise from time to time on residential roads.

Our assessment indicates that the Rotterdam Road serves a relatively closed community i.e. residents and visitors to the area and is not a thoroughfare of high volumes. There is a Play Park which has been addressed by two speed humps but there are no schools along or other notable public facilities along Rotterdam Road and therefore the remainder of the road is non-compliant with the Traffic Calming Policy Directives Section 7(3). Unless proven otherwise, Traffic Calming will not be considered further along Rotterdam Road.

Should you require further information in this regard, a link to the City of Cape Town’s Traffic Calming Policy is provided below:

Yours Faithfully
Tim de Villiers
Senior Traffic Engineer: South Metro

Cllr Jansen request that this item be removed from the MRA report.

RESOLVED:

a)That the request for traffic calming measures: Ward 43 – Rotterdam Road, Strandfontein be SUPPORTED. .