A number of roads in and around Cape Town’s CBD will be closed to accommodate the State of the Nation Address.
|||A number of roads in and around Cape Town’s CBD will be closed on Thursday to accommodate the State of the Nation Address by President Jacob Zuma at 7pm.
Parking restrictions will also have to be imposed in a number of roads.
Please refer to the details below for names of affected streets.
5.45pm to 7pm (about 35 minutes)
* Klipper Road, Newlands: from Main Road (M4) to Newlands Avenue
* Princess Anne Avenue, Newlands: from Newlands Avenue to Union Avenue
* Newlands Avenue, Newlands: from Dean Street to Princess Anne Avenue
* Dean Street, Newlands, westbound: from Main Road (M4) to Newlands Avenue
* M3, Union Avenue, Rhodes Drive, De Waal Drive, City-bound carriageway: from Newlands Avenue to city centre
* Woolsack Drive, Rondebosch, westbound: between Main Road (M4) and Rhodes Drive (M3)
* Anzio Road, Observatory: from Main Road (M4) to De Waal Drive (M3)
* N2, Settlers Way City-bound carriageway: from Main Road (M4) to city centre
* Nelson Mandela Boulevard (N2) City-bound: from Hospital Bend to Oswald Pirow (including the Melbourne Road, Roodebloem Road and Searle Street on-ramps)
4pm - 8pm
* Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Strand Street off-ramp
* Hertzog Boulevard inbound: from Nelson Mandela Boulevard to Heerengracht
* Strand Street: from Russel Street to Adderley Street
* Strand Street between Long Street and Adderley Street
* Adderley Street: from Hans Strijdom Avenue to Wale Street
* Heerengracht: between Coen Steytler and Hans Strijdom Avenues
* Wale Street outbound: between Queen Victoria Street and Adderley Street
* Bureau Street: between Adderley Street and Parliament Street
* Spin Street: between Corporation Street and Parliament Street
* Parliament Street from the gates of Parliament to approximately 35m before Longmarket Street (excluding the parking garage situated in Parliament Street)
* Plein Street between Barrack Street and Spin Street
* Closure of the Company Gardens
4pm on February 9 to 1am on February 10
* Commercial Street from Plein Street to the end of the Nieuw Meester parking facility.
6am on February 9 to 1am on February 10
* Plein Street: between Roeland Street and Barrack Street
* Roeland Street: between Plein Street and Buitenkant Street – deliveries to businesses or access to private dwellings will not be affected as provisions will be made.
* Government Avenue
* Gallery Lane
*St John’s Road: between Plein Street and Vrede Street
* Commercial Street: to be closed at Plein Street and to become bi-directional from 06h00 until 23h59
* Bouquet Street - Parliament