Urgent public meeting regarding new highway-like road in Muldersdrift
"This road will have a severely negative effect on the area."
The News was informed by a very concerned resident of Muldersdrift that there will be an open public participation meeting this afternoon (21 February) regarding a new road being planned for the area. The concerned resident told the News that this road will have a severely negative effect on the area in terms of agriculture and aesthetics, and will considerably increase traffic from all corners of the West Rand.
A notice of a public participation/ consultation process for a preliminary route determination of proposed realignment of various sections of the planned K and PWV route network was published in a daily newspaper recently.
Residents, stakeholders, and concerned and interested parties are urged to attend this urgent meeting taking place at For Goodness Sake (a local bistro) at 72 Drift Boulevard, Muldersdift.
The meeting is to be held from 2pm until 6pm.
According to Sonja van der Merwe from JG Afrika, an engineering and environmental consulting firm, non-factual and false rumours are being spread regarding the planned PWV8 route.
“We are undertaking a route determination, a process during which land is secured for the potential development of a future road. No servitudes are determined or registered at the route determination phase. The PWV8 is not a priority route, and is not on the current Multi-Year Construction Plan (also sometimes referred to as the 25-Year Plan),” Van der Merwe said in her Facebook post.
For more information regarding this meeting and the PWV8, visit the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site Association Facebook page.
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