Inroads from our Road Safety Team - Get it?

After three years of negotiations, a 3-metre-wide tarred walkway and cycle path is finally being built between Kommetjie and Ocean View, which ensures safer passage for wheelchair users, parents with prams, children, and cyclists moving between our two communities.

A huge thank-you to KRRA road safety principle Caro Smit from SADD (www.sadd.org.za) for her persistent, tireless work to make Kommetjie’s roads safer for all of us. Caro’s dedication — supported by KRRA — has led to several other meaningful wins this year:

🚶‍♀ New Pathway Between Wireless Road (Kommetjie) & Milky Way (Ocean View)

Co-funded by Red Cliff and the City of Cape Town, the pathway is well on the way to make its deadline for completion by the end of 2025.

🎥 Watch a short film about the project:

🚦 Safer Speeds on Wireless Road

A new 3-way STOP and 4-way STOP have been installed to reduce dangerous speeds and make the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists. While formal raised pedestrian crossings weren’t feasible due to cost, these measures still make a meaningful difference.

📚 Speed Hump Approved for Somerset Road

A speed hump outside the Library has been approved by the City and will be built next year — a big win for families and our pedestrian-heavy zone.

⚠ Lower Speed Limit Requested

A proposed 40-50 km/h speed limit between Wireless Road and Van Imhoff Way has been submitted and will be reviewed by the City in 2026.

👧 Kommetjie Primary Drop-Off Zone

KRRA, school staff, and parents are working together on solutions to improve safety at the school’s busy drop-off points. Engagement with the City will continue early next year.

👏 Thank you, Caro, for your leadership and determination — and thank you to SADD for standing with our community.

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KRRA is a volunteer-run organisation working to improve life in Kommetjie. If you’d like to get involved or support our work, please reach out or consider becoming a donor. Every bit of help strengthens our village. Please consider a monthly or one-off EFT payment at details below, or via Snapscan here  or Snapscan QR below🌿💚

Include your name and the code for the volunteer KRRA work you wish to support.

General 1, Parks and Open Spaces 2, Alien clearing 3, Beach Cleanup 4, Waterways Maintenance 5, Indigenous Planting 6, Walkways Maintenance 7, Traffic & Roads 8, Social Fabric 9, Development & Infrastructure 10, Media & Communications 11, Local Enterprise 12, Resilience 13 

KRRA

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Account number 374221065

Why?

The KRRA has existed for eight decades and is run by volunteers who work on issues from spatial planning, road safety, social fabric, resilience (disaster mitigation), and environmental integrity such as alien clearing, indigenous planting, beach cleanups, and the restoration of our rivers and wetlands. We get walkways fixed and look at better access. We monitor building and development, and put together alerts and updates via newsletter and social media. We deal with issues that benefit you. We would ask for some reciprocation financially (as well as ideas or volunteers) to enable the above work, which sometimes includes serious issues with legal fees attached. If every Kommetjie household donated just R50 a month (less than R2 per day), the KRRA would have a healthy enough budget to tackle almost anything thrown our way.

Contact Patrick Dowling on 084 966-1249 for additional information.

We follow legal procedure with monthly agendas and an AGM where a treasurer’s report is presented and we report back to the community. We encourage Kom residents to attend the next AGM. You will be notified via email, social media and a banner as you enter Kom. 

Be the difference.