Subcouncil 16

Resolution detail

RESOLVED to NOTE that having considered the City of Cape Town Traffic Calming Policy and the recommendation from Transport Planning & Network Management Department;

a)    Intersection between Avenue Francoise and Avenue Le Sueur, Sea Point. 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 near 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 and Urban Mobility (UM) to investigate and implement calming measures at other locations.
b)    The assessment incorporated a range of factors including speed, accident history, traffic volumes, pedestrian facilities, property access and population density, parking activity, pedestrian/cyclist activity and public amenities. These factors were combined to determine the overall potential for conflict.
c)     Consideration for traffic calming would be given preference where there are high concentrations of vulnerable road users exiting directly onto a Class 4 and Class 5 public residential road from a public facility, such as learners at primary school, developed play parks or where the potential for vehicles/pedestrian conflict may be high.
d)    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.
e)    No public amenities found along the length of this road that could potential warrant the traffic calming measures and after considering all of above reasoning and the traffic calming policy, especially Section 7(3).it is therefore deemed unnecessary to place any remedial measures in the form of traffic calming unless we are proven otherwise.
f)    Given the above assessment and having considered the CoCT traffic calming policy Section 7(3) and Section 7(2), we do not believe that circumstances exist to justify the implementation of traffic calming measures at the intersection in question. Speeding is considered a law enforcement matter and cannot be used entirely to justify the need for traffic calming. We therefore recommend NO remedial measures along Avenue Francoise and Avenue Le Sueur, Sea Point.