LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM :

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM RESTRUCTURING
CURRENT SYSTEM
SINGLE AUTHORITY
Weak Metropolitan Government Cape Metropolitan
Council (CMC) 6 Metropolitan Local Councils
Strong Metropolitan Government Sub Councils
Toward a more equitable and efficient use of
resources
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SOCIO - ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Area (ha)
215
900 Population (1996)

2,7m Population growth rate p.a. (1996 - 1999)
3 GGP per capita
(US, 1998)
3 700 pop. Living below the
poverty datum line
32 Contribution to SAs GDP
10,6 GGP
growth rate (1997/1998)
1,3 unemployment
(1996)
20 employment in the formal
sector (1996) 60
employment in the informal
sector (1996) 20

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TRANSPORT SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
Bus Fleet
700 buses No. of bus routes
800 Total length of
bus routes 21 000
kms Rail fleet
95 trainsets Total length of
rail track 443 track
kms Minibus fleet
6 700 MBTs No. of minibus-taxi
routes 300 Total length
of minibus routes 6 400 kms No.
of minibus-taxi owners 3
500 Metered taxi fleet
550 sedans Mode split private public
(AM peak period
44 56 Car ownership / 1000 population
170 Metropolitan road network
1 800 kms Port and airport

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

• Overcrowding
• Congestion
• Fragmentation
• Decline in demand for
• bus service
• Long distance and
• dispersed destinations
• Inefficient subsidy
• system

Integrated Development Planning Frameworks for
Cape Town International Airport and the Harbor
in progress
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THE CONCEPT
The Concept is based on the developments in the
forward planning initiatives on the development
of the Cape Metropolitan Area, namely a)
Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework
(MSDF) b) Integrated Metropolitan Transport
Plan c) Wetton-Lansdowne Rd -Philippi Corridor
d) Other planning metropolitan and local
metropolitan planning projects and frameworks
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METROPOLITAN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (MSDF)

• A Long term 20 year Spatial Framework for
• co-ordination of planning and development at
• metropolitan level

AIMS

• Redress Spatial Inequalities
• Densification
• Integration
• Containment of growth

STRUCTURING ELEMENTS

• Urban Edge Control Urban Sprawl
• Nodes
• Corridors
• Metropolitan Open Space System (MOSS)

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WHAT DOES THE SPATIAL FRAMEWORK DO?

• Promotes public transport system in the
  corridors
• Emphasizes the transport network system as
  part of the spatial
• restructuring process
• Reduces trip generation
• Public resources should be used to redress
  inequalities
• Concept of sustainability should guide all
  aspects of planning
• Promotes commercial activity along the public
  transport
• corridors and nodes
• To redress unequal distribution of facilities
  and opportunities

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INTEGRATED METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT PLAN

• Long term 20 year plan
• Co-ordination of transportation and traffic
  matters
• at metropolitan level
• Response to long term spatial framework
  achieved
• through
• - Extensive debates between land use and
• transport planners
• - Modeling exercise on proposed long term
• spatial plan proved possible
  reduction in trips
• Restructuring within the transport sector in
• progress
• - Emphasis on integration of land use and
• transport to contribute to spatial
  restructuring
• - Development of a multi-nodal transport
  system
• with emphasis on promotion of effective
• transport system
• Improve system utilization
• Meeting basic needs of all transport users

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INTEGRATION OF LAND USE AND TRANSPORT
Nature of the Debate

• Demand and Supply
• Transport systems are bound by some form of
  land use structure
• Demand for movement is a reflection of
  distribution of land use activities
• Actual supply of is a function of spatial
  distribution of Land Use Activities
• Degree of utilization of the system
• Both required planned intervention

Need for integration

• Move to an efficient urban system with high
  levels of system utilization,
• balanced two-way flows occurring throughout
  the transport network
• system on all modes
• Minimum unused capacity
• Such a system is characterized by
• - Mixed land use
• - High density development
• - Use of transport routes as
  key structuring elements
• Recognize new realities importance of people
  driven processes which are
• inclusive and empowering
  

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