Delivered during the 2016 Southern African Transport Conference (SATC), held in Pretoria, South Africa.

1. WHEN BICYCLE LANES ARE NOT ENOUGH
Growing mode share in Cape Town, South Africa: an
analysis of policy and practice
Gail Jennings: University of Cape Town
Brett Petzer: University of Cape Town
Ezra Goldman*: Upshift Cars
*formerly of the University of Copenhagen

2. Africa’s Cycle City?

4. “Some days I really don’t feel like being diplomatic …
about how sh-t it is for … cyclists across the city –
and how 5 or 6 years later in some parts little to
nothing has changed. Performance and impact
remains low. Some cute ‘add-ons’ and
‘goodenoughism’, ‘so thankful to haves’ is certainly
far from the shift people need…”
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6. Infrastructure: hard versus soft

7. Source: OpenStreets.org.za

8. Source: Bicycle Cape Town (bicyclecapetown.org), 29/03/2015

9. Bicycling Policy and Implementation
in South Africa and in Cape Town

10. Source: Author

11. Source: Twitter user @robwardphoto, 16/06/2016

12. Source: Twitter user @robwardphoto, 16/06/2016

13. Lotus River commuter cycling route, Cape Town (built 2011).
Source: Twitter user @PedalPowerPPA, 15/04/2016

14. Copenhagenising Cape Town?

15. Bicycle infrastructure in Claremont (L) and CBD (R), Cape Town
Source: Author

16. ’Whereas BRT is nowadays a textbook example … the
development process of more than three decades is
seldom acknowledged, and other cities tend to copy only
the successful “end-state”’. (Hitge, 2012)

17. Bogotá is an extraordinary example of matching
infrastructure “hardware” with public-policy “software”:
Latin’s America’s most extensive network of cycleways,
the world longest pedestrian corridor, and the planet’s
biggest Car Free Day (covering an entire city of 35,000
hectares). Today [2005], 43 per cent of the city’s transport
investment budget goes to ancillary policy measures.
(Cervero, 2005)

18. Bicycle lanes leading through BRT station, Bogotá, Colombia.
Source: Author Source: Flickr user GINAPFD

19. Sunday Ciclovia, Bogotá
Source: https://lavidaesloca.wordpress.com 18/05/2008

20. Discussion: Build it and they don’t come?

21. ‘Reports of rider attacked and mugged [again], cycle
lane near Woodstock station’
‘What’s the point of a cycle lane if it can’t be safely
used?’
‘I never use that portion of the cycle lane. I rather risk
the [highway].’
Cyclists’ comments on social media, July 2015

22. Shifting gears: a new direction in bicycle planning?

23. Concluding thoughts