Call to co-create Traffic Calming Policy and Road Safety Strategy
26 October 2023
The City’s Urban Mobility Portfolio Committee is calling on residents to collaborate with the City on ideas and solutions to make Cape Town’s roads safer for all users. On average, more than 700 lives are lost on our roads and more than 7 000 people are injured every year. The City is determined to make our roads safer, reducing the number of accidents and loss of life.
The Urban Mobility Portfolio Committee is reviewing the City of Cape Town's Road Safety Strategy and Traffic Calming Policy. The directorate takes road safety seriously, and as such is strengthening its efforts to improve this for all road users in Cape Town.
'The Portfolio Committee is testing a new approach to policy development, which includes calling for ideas using the City's Collaboration Platform and hosting focus group sessions via Subcouncils. This trial step precedes the policy drafting phase, giving residents and stakeholders an early opportunity to help shape the directorate's efforts to make roads safer. The Portfolio Committee is tasked with ensuring meaningful public engagement and as such is always looking for innovative ideas,' said the City Council's Chairperson of the Urban Mobility Portfolio Committee, Councillor Mikhail Manuel.
The formal public participation phase will continue, as required, after developing the draft Traffic Calming Policy and draft Road Safety Strategy.
'The Urban Mobility Directorate believes in open and innovative governance and this is yet another way that the directorate is working to include all road users in helping to make roads safer,' said the City's Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, Councillor Rob Quintas.
Road users and residents can submit comments on how the City can address:
- Road safety for pedestrians and other Non-Motorised Transport Road users.
- Road safety for passengers, especially scholars and public transport users.
'All stakeholders, including residents, innovators, civic organisations, businesses, and researchers can submit their ideas via the City's Collaboration Platform until 10 December 2023 or visit your nearest library or City facility where you can log onto Smart Cape and submit. Idea forms can be completed and submitted at your Subcouncil office. Please also be on the look-out for alerts via your Subcouncil office for an opportunity to chat to the policy development team,' concluded Councillor Manuel.
To submit your idea online, visit www.capetown.gov.za/collaborate and for enquiries, email roadsafetyCT@capetown.gov.za
The Road Safety Call for Ideas campaign is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation, grant, or cooperative agreement, or as an obligation on the part of the City of Cape Town. The City will not pay for the preparation of any information submitted, nor for the use of such information. No basis for claims against the City shall arise as a result of a response to this request for information, nor from the use of such information.
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City of Cape Town, Media Office
