Bypass back on the cards

Writer: De Waal Steyn.

The Hermanus bypass is dead, long live the bypass. After no news on the proposed Hermanus CBD bypass project was received for almost two years, the project suddenly made a comeback last week when an amended final Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on the controversial bypass, that has been on the cards since 2009, was released by consulting engineering firm SRK.

This amended final report follows the rejection of the final EIA report in March 2018 by the Provincial Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (DEA&DP) and a statement by Mayor Dudley Coetzee at the time that the council is not in support of the bypass until such time as the problems of getting into and leaving town on the R43 are solved.

On Monday Coetzee said the municipality stands by its statement that “before we look at bypassing the CBD it is more important to improve the traffic flow coming into Hermanus from Bot River and leaving the town towards Stanford”.

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