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A Network of Myciti Routes Where the Routes Go 2 MyCiTi June 2011 WATERFRONT A network Salt River Rail Breakwater SALT RIVER Granger Marine Mouille Point Nobel Clocktower Lower Salt River Somerset Square Cape Town Hospital of MyCiTi Salt River Lighthouse GREEN Aquarium POINT Foreshore Convention Centre Marina Dock routes CIVIC CENTRE Roodebloem Convention Centre STADIUM Three Anchor Bay he nine permanent routes were chosen Heerengracht to serve important destinations like 137 GP Main Upper Woodstock Lower Bree Adderley places of employment, schools and 27 Somerset 195 GP Main shopping centres. They were also Mid Bree Rocklands Gallows Hill Keizersgracht T Castle planned so that nobody should have to walk Sea Point Library Upper Bree Upper Portswood Riebeeck more than a few minutes to reach a stop within St James Wale Lower Tennant 26 SP Main Bantam the area served. Bo-Kaap Buitenkant CPUT Mid Loop Plein Chester London The routes are part of Phase 1A of the MyCiTi 205 High Level Darling De Villiers Hall system, which is also being extended to Atlantis, Zonnebloem Upper Adderley Walmer Estate 80 SP Main Upper Loop Devil’s Peak Upper Mountain University Estate 243 High Level St Johns Upper Melbourne Graaff’s Du Noon, Jo Slovo Park, Montague Gardens and 65 Buitenkant Pool High Cape 120 SP Main Melkbosstrand. They are additions to the ever- 265 High Level Hatfield 147 Buitenkant extending MyCiTi network, which is planned to Milton’s Villa Maria Pool Tafelberg High Derry expand across the city in coming years. Gardens Lower Burnside Upper Burnside St James The next phase will extend to the southeast 188 SP Main Irwinton Pavillion Upper Buitenkant areas of the metro, which include Khayelitsha 18 Kloof Nek Weltevreden Florida Upper Fresnaye 62 Kloof 43 Kloof Nek and Mitchells Plain. Beach Tamboerskloof Deer Park East 76 Regent Lower Kloof Queens 94Regent VREDEHOEK 81 Upper Highlands Beach 112 Kloof Orange 15 Victoria Van Riebeeck De Waal Park Bantry Bay 150 Kloof Deer Park West 81 Kloof Nek Montrose Clifton Biskop 99 Kloof Nek Rayden Where the Molteno Clifton 2nd Upper Deer Park Bellevue Bend Clairwood Clifton 3rd ORANJEZICHT Kloof Nek Circle routes go Clifton 4th TABLE MOUNTAIN Clifford Maiden’s Cove Glen Beach Dal Dal turn F01 Hout Bay to Cape Town via Camps Bay Airport - Civic Centre West Coast trunk and Sea Point Fairway Trunk route Tree Prima turn Athol Quebec Montana Airport trunk From Cape Town, the bus leaves Civic Centre Prima West Coast trunk Sedgemoor station and travels via Adderley and Riebeeck F01 CBD - Stadium - Queens Camps Bay Beach Feeder routes Beach - Camps Bay - Hout Bay streets along Somerset Road in Green Point. The 40 Camps Bay Rontree Ravensteyn F01 CBD – Stadium – Queens BeachF02 Clocktower – Camps - BayCBD –- KloofHout Bay route continues to Sea Point Main Road, Victoria Fiskaal Nek - Camps Bay Queens Beach - Victoria Road from Clifton, through Camps Bay and past Houghton Chas Booth F02 Clocktower – CBD – Kloof NekF03 – Camps Bay Wharf - CBD - Gardens Centre Houghton Llandudno into Hout Bay. There are several stops F03 Queens Beach – Victoria WharfF04 CBD – CBD - Fresnaye – Gardens - Queens Centre Beach along Main Road, one opposite the police station Rontree Isadore Cohen Bakoven F04 CBD – Fresnaye – Queens BeachF05 Bo-Kaap - CBD - Zonnebloem at Imizamo Yethu, along Princess Street past - Salt River the Mainstream Shopping centre, along Harbour F05 Bo-Kaap – CBD – ZonnebloemF06 –CBD Salt - Gardens River Curio Market Road, Atlantic Skipper, Karbonkel Road and F06 CBD – Gardens F07 CBD - Gardens Marlin Crescent, before the route turns back in F07 CBD – Gardens F08 CBD - Gardens - Vredehoek the direction of Cape Town. Oudekraal Helgarda Valley Imizamo Yethu Llandudno Mount Rhodes Berg-en-Dal Ruyterplaats F08 CBD – Gardens – VredehoekF65 CBD - Gardens - Tamboerskloof Scott F02 Waterfront via the Central City F65 CBD – Gardens – Tamboerskloof Princess East and Kloof Nek to Camps Bay Trunk Station Princess West Trunk feeder transfer HOUT BAY This route runs from the Clock Tower in the North Shore Feeder stop Closed Feeder Station Lower Marlin Waterfront via Dock Road, past the Convention Hout Bay Harbour Upper Marlin Closed feeder station Feeder Stop Centre to the Civic Centre station. It then goes up Atlantic Skipper Karbonkel Adderley, Long and Lower Kloof streets, before turning on to Kloof Nek Road and travelling over Kloof Nek to Camps Bay. The route winds its way This map shows the network of nine new permanent feeder routes expected to start operating in 2012. down Camps Bay Drive, onto Victoria Road and back up Geneva Drive, over the Nek to Cape Town. F03 Sea Point via the CBD to Gardens into Adderley Street, continuing along Darling Street and F08 Highlands Estate via Vredehoek and Gardens to the CBD and Vredehoek Keizergracht to the Cape Peninsula University of Technology From Clairwood Avenue, the route travels along Deer park This route starts at Queen’s Beach and runs along campus. It then goes up Coronation Road, Upper Mountain Drive, Highlands Avenue and Upper Buitenkant Street to Mill Beach Road in the direction of central Cape Town Road and Upper Roodebloem Road into Salt River Road and Street, continues down Buitenkant Street, turns right into via Breakwater Boulevard and Dock Road. From along Albert Road to Salt River railway station in Foundry Road. Darling Street, left in Adderley Street and to Civic Centre the Civic Centre station it heads up Adderley and station in Hertzog Boulevard. Long streets and along Orange and Annandale to F06 Civic Centre to Gardens Centre via Gardens Mill Street at the Gardens Centre. From there it and Oranjezicht F65 Tamboerskloof via Gardens to the CBD heads up towards the mountain, in a loop around This route travels from Civic Centre station via Lower Long The route travels along Warren Street and Albert Road, down Vredehoek Avenue, Ludlow Road, Lambert Road Street, up Kloof Street, into Rayden Street, Molteno Road and Burnside Road into Kloof Street, along Camps and Upper and Derry Street. Montrose Avenue, along Upper Orange Street and Annandale Orange streets, down Hatfi eld, St John’s Road and Plein Street, Street to the Gardens Centre in Mill Street. into Darling, down Adderley and to Civic Centre station. F04 Queen’s Beach to Fresnaye and Cape Town From Beach Road, Sea Point, the route travels up F07 Civic Centre to Gardens Centre via Zonnebloem Queen’s Road and Fresnaye Avenue, along High and Vredehoek Level Road, into Strand and Adderley streets to From Civic Centre the route runs along Adderley and Darling the Civic Centre station. Street, past the Grand Parade, up Keizersgracht, right into Tennant Street, De Villiers Road, Crassula and Barnham F05 Bo Kaap via Central City and Zonnebloem avenues, into Derry and St James streets, along Floria Road, to Salt River Deer Park Drive, Highlands Avenue and Upper Buitenkant Street Starting in Bantam Street, the route runs to the Gardens Centre. down Wale Street and Bree Street, turning .
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