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The final years before Woodstock Beach was buried to never be seen again.
📍Cape Town
1935 vs 2024
📍Cape Town
1935 vs 2024
May 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The final years before Woodstock Beach was buried to never be seen again.
📍Cape Town
1935 vs 2024
📍Cape Town
1935 vs 2024
Cape Town's car-centric, flats-in-the-middle-of-nowhere urban planning philosophy in action.
Why is this seen as more desirable than well-located urban infill development?
Why is this seen as more desirable than well-located urban infill development?
May 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Cape Town's car-centric, flats-in-the-middle-of-nowhere urban planning philosophy in action.
Why is this seen as more desirable than well-located urban infill development?
Why is this seen as more desirable than well-located urban infill development?
Before Cape Town was one big metropolitan municipality, it consisted of many smaller municipalities such as Rondebosch Municipality, Pinelands Municipality and the City of Belville.
Here's one small reminder of this past:
Here's one small reminder of this past:
March 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Before Cape Town was one big metropolitan municipality, it consisted of many smaller municipalities such as Rondebosch Municipality, Pinelands Municipality and the City of Belville.
Here's one small reminder of this past:
Here's one small reminder of this past:
Cape Town's roads may be an 8/10, but CT's sidewalks are at most a 5/10:
• Full of cars, road signs, and other obstacles.
• Inferior engineering and materials
• Not continuous, and undersized
• Limited Maintenance compared to roads
Time for this to change
• Full of cars, road signs, and other obstacles.
• Inferior engineering and materials
• Not continuous, and undersized
• Limited Maintenance compared to roads
Time for this to change
March 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Cape Town's roads may be an 8/10, but CT's sidewalks are at most a 5/10:
• Full of cars, road signs, and other obstacles.
• Inferior engineering and materials
• Not continuous, and undersized
• Limited Maintenance compared to roads
Time for this to change
• Full of cars, road signs, and other obstacles.
• Inferior engineering and materials
• Not continuous, and undersized
• Limited Maintenance compared to roads
Time for this to change
Cape Town trains are finally on Google Maps!
February 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cape Town trains are finally on Google Maps!
South Africa's rail recovery continues:
- Passenger trips are up 44 % from Jan to Nov 2024 compared to the same period in 2023
- Passenger trips are still down 540 million or 89 % compared to the same period in 2009.
- Passenger trips are up 44 % from Jan to Nov 2024 compared to the same period in 2023
- Passenger trips are still down 540 million or 89 % compared to the same period in 2009.
February 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
South Africa's rail recovery continues:
- Passenger trips are up 44 % from Jan to Nov 2024 compared to the same period in 2023
- Passenger trips are still down 540 million or 89 % compared to the same period in 2009.
- Passenger trips are up 44 % from Jan to Nov 2024 compared to the same period in 2023
- Passenger trips are still down 540 million or 89 % compared to the same period in 2009.
Nice to see some improved pedestrian infrastructure go up at Table Mountain.
December 9, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Nice to see some improved pedestrian infrastructure go up at Table Mountain.
Bree Street is pedestrianised every Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 for the rest of 2024🚸
📍Cape Town
📍Cape Town
November 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Bree Street is pedestrianised every Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 for the rest of 2024🚸
📍Cape Town
📍Cape Town
Hello South Africa... and everyone else!
October 10, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Hello South Africa... and everyone else!