Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, said the unfinished Foreshore freeway could take close to a decade to be completed
Foreshore freeway will be completed and open to the public, you might have to wait for the next nine years. However, this also depends on whether traffic levels would have increased to justify the completion of this bridge.
The leader of Al Jama-ah and member of parliament, Mogamad Ganief Hendricks asked Mbalula the reasons why the bridge remained unfinished for the past 40 years. Mbalula said the bridge was the City’s road and the original plan was to implement it in phases. He said when the time came for building the missing portion of it, the predicted traffic for the start date of construction had not materialised.
He said, since then, the priority changed from road building to promoting public transport and the completion of the freeway was not prioritised above improving public transport and being able to afford the completion of the freeway has been a challenge for the City.
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