MEDIA STATEMENT
 

Monday 02 October 2006, Hilton Hotel (Polo Room) at 7h30 am for 8h00 am

THEME: TRANSPORT THE HEARTBEAT OF SOUTH AFRICA’S ECONOMY

KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison Mr Bheki Cele will host a media briefing to officially launch transport month activity plans for KwaZulu-Natal province. The media briefing will be held at the Hilton Hotel (Polo Room) in Durban on Monday 02 October 2006 at 7h30 am for 8h00 am.

The Transport month campaign is a government initiative geared towards strengthening the link between awareness-raising and policy measures to reduce traffic congestion by particularly promoting the use of public transport. It is particularly for this reason that the Minister of transport Jeff Radebe and MECs for Transport declared October as National Transport Month at the transport lekgotla in 2005, in order to promote sustainable transport solutions such as walking, cycling, public transport and car travel with two or more occupants and also to stimulate public reflection about the need to manage unsustainable car use, especially in the metropolitan cities of South Africa.

Furthermore Transport month is aimed at improving road infrastructure projects which are aimed at rural development and in preparing for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The Ethekwini Municipality will be in partnership with KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport in launching 2010 projects in the city that are linked to the transport sector.
 

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