Sod turn at site of City’s Transport Management Centre

By Yamkela Xhaso
31 October


Councillor Elizabeth Thompson, Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Roads and Storm water, will turn the first sod at the site today in Goodwood where the City’s new Transport Management Centre is to be built.

The project will cost an estimated R130 million.

Thompson says The Transport Management Centre will facilitate the management of traffic incidents, provide a safer transport environment and give road users reliable information that will enable them to select the best route

Thompson says

“It is one of the first integrated transport management and this will happen in Cape Town”

“Now the city has a unique transport challenge in terms of improving public transport, transport management and networks of operations”

Thompson added that the will be visual network monitoring from real time video and cctv cameras.