Another Tradgic Killing on Kommetjie Road- One readers account

Road accident at Kommetjie Rd Quarry Rd intersection
Following the death of Gaby Bouwer it seems that little was done to actually decrease the risk of death and injury on Kommetjie Road, now statistics have caught up with us again and someone else has had to pay the ultimate price for a) the general negligence of drivers and b) the ineptitude of authorities to do something about it. I was going to write my own piece about this ki...
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Kommetjie Road, Quarry Road and 17th Avenue- still an accident black spot!

For as long as I have lived in the area the junctions where 17th Avenue and Quarry Road meet Kommetjie Road in Fish Hoek have been accident black spots. The local newspapers had letter after letter regarding this problem and what was to be done. The main problems were that it was nearly impossible at busy times to get out of 17th Avenue and that traffic used the left lane g...
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Road closures in Cape Town that you may not hear about- until its too late!

I have just read a report on news24 that the City of Cape Town is closing two roads in the Cape Town CBD for repairs and upgrading. Whilst they have let the effected areas know through a pamphlet drop the news may not have filtered down so readily to the inhabitants of the Cape Point Peninsula. If you do travel to town a lot, or are even planning a trip in the next few days ...
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Stranded At Cape Point- What To Do If You Break Down In A Nature Reserve

A recent family trip to Cape Point Nature Reserve nearly ended in disaster, simply because we didn’t know what to do when we had car trouble. So I thought that I would write a post so that in a similar situation you can avoid the same problems. My sister visited me recently. It was her first visit to Cape Town and so naturally we were keen to show her all the great places in...
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I Sometimes Wonder…

Anyone who works in Cape Town and does the drive into town every morning will know that the traffic in rush hour is enough to make you go mad! The drive home is no fun either. There is nothing worse than getting to the outskirts, just where the M3 hits the suburbs and then hitting the stop-go. I don’t actually work in town but have on occasion had to brave the rush hour tr...
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Main Road: Upgrade?

I was coming back from Epping last week down the Prince George Drive and decided, since it was a nice day and didn’t mind sitting at the lights, to come home via Kalk Bay (as luck would have it the lights were green and I went straight through). This isn’t the first time that I have driven down Main Road since the first section near Muizenburg has been finished, but for some...
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Gaby Bouwer- A Double Tragedy

The 19th August has become a sad day for the town of Fish Hoek; this Thursday marked the first anniversary of the tragic death of Gaby Bouwer. Gaby was walking her dog, waiting to cross Kommetjie Road, just to the east of the notorious 17th Avenue junction, when she was struck and killed by an out of control taxi- allegedly being driven at speed by a driver with no license....
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