City rules out traffic calming for three Brackenfell, Kraaifontein roads

The City has ruled out traffic-calming measures for three roads in Brackenfell and Kraaifontein after residents called for them.

The measures are unnecessary, according to a City traffic engineering technician whose report was included in the agenda of Sub-council 2’s meeting on Wednesday last week.

The roads are Kruin Street, between Bergoos Street and Suikerbos Street, and Buitenkant Street, between Kruis Road and Protea Road, in Brackenfell, and Kipling Street, between Sarel van Deventer Street and Mossel Bank Road, in Kraaifontein.

In her report, Akhona Maseko said all the roads were in medium-density residential areas.

There were already three speed humps along Kruin Street near the Suikerbossie Park to protect pedestrians and there were no other amenities such as schools that might attract vulnerable pedestrians, and the potential for conflict between pedestrians and traffic along Kruin Street was considered low, the report said.

It also noted that while there was a retirement village along Buitenkant Street, it was in a gated security estate and did not have direct access onto the road, and there were no public amenities used by vulnerable pedestrians with direct access onto Kipling Street.

Aristea Primary and Monument Park High schools were near Kipling Street, but pedestrian activity and vehicle volumes were found to be low, and there had been only one crash, with no injuries, in the street between Sarel van Deventer Street and Mosselbank Road from 2013 to 2018.

Traffic-calming measures were provided to protect vulnerable pedestrians and other road users in residential areas and where there were public facilities such as schools and clinics, Ms Maseko said.