Mayor tables R114m N2 Edge safety project
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the City has allocated R114m in its adjustment budget for the N2 Edge safety project to improve safety for commuters, pedestrians, and communities along a 9km stretch of the N2. Read the Mayor’s full address to City Council here: capetown.gov.za/Media-and-news/Council Speech 29 january 2026
Besides safety barrier repairs and reinforcements along the N2, the project will bring various safety improvements for adjacent communities, including:
- new pedestrian crossings,
- improved lighting and access control,
- safety barriers for recreational spaces,
- safer grazing practices,
- reduced scope for illegal dumping,
- and other opportunities arising from the coming engagements with communities along the N2
‘Our adjustment budget commits R114m to the N2 Edge project, which will make a positive difference to the safety of every motorist along that stretch, and reduce pedestrian fatalities.
‘This project will not only repair safety barriers, but also bring various safety improvements for communities along the N2.
‘It is not fair that a small number of criminal elements are impacting the safety of hundreds of thousands of daily users of the N2, including commuters from Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Blue Downs, Eerste River, Mfuleni, the Helderberg, and neighbouring towns.
‘The N2 edge project will improve safety alongside the City’s beefed-up highway patrolling, with over 40 new Metro cops deployed to the N2, backed by CCTV cameras, automatic number plate recognition, and digital coordination for rapid response to help motorists,’ said Mayor Hill-Lewis.
City banks R412m in performance incentive grant-funding
National Treasury has awarded Cape Town with R412m in performance grant-funding as part of the newly-introduced Metro Trading Services Reform grant.
This is in recognition of good governance and sustainability reforms in Cape Town’s utility services for Water & Sanitation, Energy, and Urban Waste Management.
‘This is a very welcome first injection of R412m from National Treasury in recognition of the progress we have made since the various budget reforms last year. This grant incentivises well-run, self-sustaining utility services for water, sanitation, energy and waste. These funds are being immediately injected into infrastructure projects to ensure even better basic services for Capetonians into the future,’ said Mayor Hill-Lewis.
The main projects benefitting from this funding include electricity grid upgrades to the tune of R74m for system equipment replacement and R35m for substations and medium-voltage infrastructure. A further R267m will go towards the City’s major water and sanitation programme for Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for more predictable and reliable water and sanitation billing.
Further adjustment budget highlights include:
- R46m more for community swimming pool upgrades
- R30m more for upgrades to various community facilities
- R11m brought forward for Strandfontein Pavilion due to upgrade work being ahead of schedule
- R57m for additional stormwater projects in communities hardest hit by winter flooding
- R16m for additional vehicles for the City’s new Neighbourhood Safety officers, part of the 800-new officer deployment last year
- R45m towards operationalising a new Joint Policing Centre in Parow for inter-agency safety coordination between the City, SAPS and other partners
