STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2012
PARKING RESTRICTIONS AND ROAD CLOSURES
 

Parliament is hosting the State of the Nation Address by President Jacob Zuma at 19.00 on Thursday 9 February 2012.

To accommodate this ceremony of state, parking restrictions will have to be imposed in a number of roads and some roads will have to be closed to normal traffic.

PARKING RESTRICTIONS
From midnight (23h59) Wednesday 8 February to 23h59 Thursday 9 February

  • Princess Anne Avenue, Newlands
  • Church Square, corner of Spin Street and Parliament Street
  • Roeland Street: Between Plein Street and Buitenkant Street
  • Plein Street: Between Roeland Street and Spin Street
  • Spin Street: Between Parliament Street and Plein Street
  • Parliament Street: Between Longmarket Street and Bureau Street
  • Hatfield Street and St John's Street: Between Roeland Street and Orange Street
  • Adderley Street: between Wale Street and Hertzog Boulevard
  • St Mary's Cathedral Parking Area: Between Bouquet Street and Roeland Street
  • Gallery Lane
  • Queen Victoria Street
  • Commercial Street
  • Hertzog Boulevard: From Nelson Mandela Boulevard to Heerengracht

ROAD CLOSURES Thursday 9 February
17h45 to 19h00 (about 35 minutes)

  • Klipper Road, Newlands: from Main Road (M4) to Newlands Avenue
  • Princess Anne Avenue, Newlands: from Newlands Avenue to Union Avenue
  • Newlands Avenue, Newlands: from Dean Street to Princess Anne Avenue
  • Dean Street, Newlands, westbound: from Main Road (M4) to Newlands Avenue
  • M3, Union Avenue, Rhodes Drive, De Waal Drive, City-bound carriageway: from Newlands Avenue to city centre
  • Woolsack Drive, Rondebosch, westbound: between Main Road (M4) and Rhodes Drive (M3)
  • Anzio Road, Observatory: from Main Road (M4) to De Waal Drive (M3)
  • N2, Settlers Way City-bound carriageway: from Main Road (M4) to city centre
  • Nelson Mandela Boulevard (N2) City-bound: from Hospital Bend to Oswald Pirow (including the Melbourne Road, Roodebloem Road and Searle Street on-ramps)

16h00 to 20h00

  • Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Strand Street off-ramp
  • Hertzog Boulevard inbound: from Nelson Mandela Boulevard to Heerengracht
  • Strand Street: from Russel Street to Adderley Street
  • Strand Street between Long Street and Adderley Street
  • Adderley Street: from Hans Strijdom Avenue to Wale Street
  • Heerengracht: between Coen Steytler and Hans Strijdom Avenues
  • Wale Street outbound: between Queen Victoria Street and Adderley Street
  • Bureau Street: between Adderley Street and Parliament Street
  • Spin Street: between Corporation Street and Parliament Street
  • Parliament Street from the gates of Parliament to approximately 35m before Longmarket Street (excluding the parking garage situated in Parliament Street)
  • Plein Street between Barrack Street and Spin Street
  • Closure of the Company Garden

16h00 on 9 February to 01h00 on 10 February

  • Commercial Street from Plein Street to the end of the Nieuw Meester parking facility.

06h00 on 9 February to 01h00 on 10 February

  • Plein Street: between Roeland Street and Barrack Street
  • Roeland Street: between Plein Street and Buitenkant Street – deliveries to businesses or access to private dwellings will not be affected as provisions will be made.
  • Government Avenue
  • Gallery Lane
  • St John’s Road: between Plein Street and Vrede Street
  • Commercial Street: to be closed at Plein Street and to become bi-directional from 06h00 until 23h59
  • Bouquet Street
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