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New Vredenburg vehicle impoundment facility

20 October 2016

Vredenburg vehicle impound facility

The Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works delivers infrastructure and services to people of the province to promote positive socio-economic outcome and safe, empowered and connected communities.

A R5.7 million vehicle impoundment facility built by the Department of Transport and Public Works (DTPW) in Vredenburg will be taken into service soon. The facility will enable authorities to more easily impound vehicles for serious transgressions of traffic laws. 

The facility reached practical completion in December 2015, but factors outside the Department's control meant it could not be taken into service immediately. The nearest operating impoundment facility is currently in Ndabeni in Cape Town.

The facility comprises an area of approximately 3 400 m that is big enough to hold 9 buses and 33 other motor vehicles. The facility is surrounded by a security wall with an electrical fence on top, and equipped with closed circuit television cameras and security lights. A new guard house and a new office have been built inside an existing building on the site. 

In its infrastructure projects, DTPW seeks to give effect to the aims of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). This includes short-term employment and skills training opportunities. A total of 36 local people worked on the project during construction. 

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Media Enquiries: 

Byron la Hoe
Communication Officer
Department of Transport and Public Works
Tel: 021 483 9813
Cell: 079 281 8570
Email: byron.lahoe@westerncape.gov.za

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