Chapter 11 - Sedibeng District Municipality

The beefed responsibilities of municipalities as outlined in the National Land
Transport Act, 2009 (Act 5 of 2009) give a clear context for the scale and importance
of transport services envisaged. They include:
• Developing a land transport policy and strategy based on national and
provincial guidelines (to cover the municipality’s area of jurisdiction). This
must include its vision and incorporate spatial development policies on matters
such as densification and infilling as w ell as development corridors.
• Promulgating municipal by-law s and concluding appropriate agreements in the
municipal sphere.
• Ensuring coordination betw een municipal departments and agencies that are
responsible in some w ay for transport and land use planning issues, and
bringing together the relevant officials w hen necessary.
• Preparing transport plans, ensuring the implementation thereof and monitoring
its performance in achieving its goals and objectives.
• Managing the movement of persons and goods on land w ithin its area by
coordinating such movement.
Saving time, costs and the environment
• Financial planning w ith regard to land transport w ithin or affecting its area of
jurisdiction, w ith particular reference to transport planning, infrastructure,
operations, services, maintenance, monitoring and administration, w ith due
focus on the rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructure.
• Encouraging and promoting the optimal use of available travel modes so as to
enhance the effectiveness of the transport system and reduce travelling time
and costs.
• Developing, implementing and monitoring a strategy to prevent, minimise or
reduce any adverse impacts of the land transport system on the environment.
Communication and aw areness
• Developing, operating and maintaining a land transport information system.
• Encouraging, promoting and facilitating public consultation and participation in
the planning, regulation and implantation of public transport, and applying the
requirements of the Systems Act in that regard.
• Marketing and promoting public transport.
• Providing information to users or potential users of public transport.
Passenger needs
• Promoting safety and security in public transport.
• Providing for the needs of special categories of passengers in planning and
providing public transport infrastructure, facilities and services to meet such
needs, in so far as is possible.
• Liaising on a continuous basis w ith the South African Police Service, Road
Traffic Management Corporation, the relevant provincial and municipal law
enforcement authorities or agencies, and the inspectors appointed under the
Cross-Border Act, so as to ensure coordinated transport law enforcement.
Road traffic and corridors
• Applying traffic management techniques aimed at improving road traffic
movement.
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