The City of Cape Town is planning to complete three unfinished freeways and bridges on the western, central and eastern side of the Foreshore Freeway, according to executive mayor Patricia de Lille.
Speaking at the opening of the exhibition of proposals for the Foreshore Freeway Precinct, De Lille said she believed this would address Cape Town’s traffic congestion in the CBD.
“The development of the Foreshore Freeway Precinct will be on a scale never seen before in Cape Town. We expect it to resolve some of the challenges that are currently preventing us from realising the City’ full potential – lack of mobility being key,” she said.
De Lille added that the Cape Town freeways were not able to accommodate the traffic volumes of the metro.
“When engineers designed the freeways and embarked on the ambitious roads project, the traffic flowing into and out of the city was not nearly at the level that we are experiencing today,” she commented.
De Lille said construction on the project was expected to commence towards the end of the year to allow tender applications during the course of the year.
