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Speaker 1: Don't we talk WhatsApp seven to five six seven one

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Speaker 1: five six seven Now as Easter weekend sort of wraps up,

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Speaker 1: but not really right because it's still a public holiday

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Speaker 1: today and from my understanding, the school's only return back

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, so we're going to have a lot of

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Speaker 1: traffic on the roads today and most likely tomorrow. Maxine

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Speaker 1: Bozeta notes is the chief director, excuse me, the chief

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Speaker 1: director of traffic management at the Western Cape Department of Mobility.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Maxine, Good morning Betty. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm well, I'm well. Thank you for making time for

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Speaker 1: us on this Monday morning. Maxine, a quick overview. I

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Speaker 1: remember we spoke to you on Friday when Zaan was

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Speaker 1: hosting this show and you had just completed a twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour roadblock at the Higginote Tunnel. I think you

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Speaker 1: also had a lot of other operations happening throughout the

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Speaker 1: Western Cape on the.

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Speaker 2: Main routes credit and we still have it. It's ongoing,

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Speaker 2: so we still have our visible checkpoints across the province

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Speaker 2: and this includes collaboration with our municipal stakeholders as well

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Speaker 2: as ems at our way bridges. I went out visiting

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Speaker 2: along the n seven drove all the way to Field

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Speaker 2: and Dulberry. It's like getting a passport into another country.

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Speaker 2: But the officers were visible, they were outside of the vehicles,

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Speaker 2: they were checking to motors. And the level of compliance

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Speaker 2: that I saw along the Inn seven as well as

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Speaker 2: in one when I came back, was absolutely phenomenal. So

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Speaker 2: people are sticking to the speed limits, they are bearing

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Speaker 2: the rules of the road, and that is something that

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Speaker 2: I want us to carry through right up until Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I think oftentimes we obviously report on all the horrible

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Speaker 1: incidents that tend to happen on our roads. And it

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Speaker 1: was not only now, but on Friday. You also mentioned

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Speaker 1: a high level of compliance, and that's great feedback to get.

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Speaker 2: It's great because I was reading in the newspaper Think

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Speaker 2: earlier this morning that Johannesburg has seen over two hundred

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Speaker 2: the risk for people that were drinking and driving. We've

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Speaker 2: only seen twenty nine, and and there was Thursday and Friday.

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Speaker 2: We still have to collect the stats for yesterday and

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Speaker 2: of course today, but twenty nine motors competing Joe books

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Speaker 2: just over two hundred just shown us that people are

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Speaker 2: taking road safety serious.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's shocking. Well, shocking in the best of ways.

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Speaker 1: Out of all the major routes are there are they?

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Speaker 1: What was our busiest is there? I don't want to

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Speaker 1: put you on the spot with stats you don't have,

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Speaker 1: but in terms of volume, where were people going or

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Speaker 1: coming from?

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Speaker 2: The most so the most heavy traffic volumes. In terms

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Speaker 2: of traffic volumes, it was our Garden Root area, so

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Speaker 2: you George and Nisner. People really went out to Muscle Bay.

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Speaker 2: The Into was fairly congested along Into. I took a

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Speaker 2: drive up until Edmanus. The roads were busy, but also

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Speaker 2: officers were patrolling up and down where our tactic points,

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Speaker 2: you know, pulling especially motorcyclists because remember I speak to you,

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Speaker 2: over the last three weekns we've been seeing motorcycle fatalities

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Speaker 2: and the compliance amongst motorcyclists were also It was reassuring

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Speaker 2: because you know, they stopped the acted officers showed them,

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Speaker 2: you know, like your your number place is a bit

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Speaker 2: too small. It's not supposed to be a nice interaction.

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Speaker 2: So our Garden route was very, very busy, like I

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Speaker 2: said yesterday and seven not too busy, and there wasn't

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Speaker 2: high volumes of traffic, but the Garden Roots and then

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Speaker 2: of course, when people left the province on Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 2: the in one was heavily congested.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I assume we're going to see a lot

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Speaker 1: of people return, not only today but also tomorrow. As

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Speaker 1: I said, the school starts on Wednesdays, so we're going

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Speaker 1: to have a bit of a staggered return, I assume, correct.

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Speaker 2: And that's good because people will start We check traffic

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Speaker 2: volumes early this morning already, and normally we see just

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Speaker 2: before schools start the travel increases and volumes start to

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Speaker 2: pick up, but we haven't seen it gest yet, So

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Speaker 2: we are expecting this morning for people to start checking

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Speaker 2: out of the holiday accommodations and start making their way

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Speaker 2: their way home, because as a parent, you don't want

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Speaker 2: to come home the day before school starts. Okay, it

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Speaker 2: is going to be absolutely churiosity, Is that true?

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Speaker 1: I can't relate, but I can actually only just imagine Maxine. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm actually going to let you go because

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Speaker 1: I think no news is good news from your department.

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Speaker 1: Your operations are ongoing for the next two days, and

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Speaker 1: I assume that your departments can be visible on all

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Speaker 1: major highways.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, and we are still visible we're going to be

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Speaker 2: up until the weekend. Well, our options are intensified. Operations

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Speaker 2: is up until the fourth of May. So this is

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Speaker 2: just not a once off Berry. This is going to

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Speaker 2: be Remember we've got all these long holidays or long

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Speaker 2: weekends coming up up until the force of May, so

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Speaker 2: our operations will be intensified until the force of May.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. Maxine Bizet notes, thank you very much for your

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Speaker 1: time on this morning and so early in the morning.

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Speaker 1: She's the chief director for traffic Management at the Western

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Speaker 1: Cape Mobility Department, and it's nice to hear that there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of compliance. There's the same Maccine was on

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Speaker 1: with the zay on Friday and was also boasting a

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Speaker 1: really high level of compliance. And I think as a

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Speaker 1: Western Cape resident, we can feel proud of ourselves on

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Speaker 1: that one