Bakwena’s N1N4 Control of Speed By Illusion (COSBI) Easter road safety campaign became the talking point of social media with its use of metal cut-out Metro Police vehicles. This campaign has already proven itself to be a very successful way of getting road users’ attention and change their driving behaviour over what is traditionally one…
DetailsChildren travelling to and from school will be safer in several communities adjacent to the N4 highway. This is because the safety of children on roads around schools is at the heart of Bakwena’s Safe to School project. Bakwena’s Charmaine van Wyk says the Safe to School pilot project is just one of many community…
DetailsBy Graeme Blewitt, Chief Executive Officer, Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire US President Donald Trump made a point in his inauguration speech to emphasise his election pledge to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure investment over 10 years. He has repeatedly promised to “rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools and hospitals”. In his inauguration address, the…
DetailsBakwena places great importance on their road users’ experience of the routes and therefore are sharing a significant update on the work they are currently engaged in as a means of keeping road users informed and prepared for any road works that will be taking place. Sefako Makghato Interchange (Zambezi upgrades) Bakwena will soon be…
DetailsThe Easter holiday season traffic build up is about to start on all freeways, with thousands of vehicles an hour embarking on road trips to the coast, mountains and bush. The mass exodus will build up and reach a crescendo over the Easter weekend from Thursday afternoon (13 th April) as holiday makers set off…
DetailsBakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire has an ambitious R1.0 billion schedule of maintenance and construction projects, which are scheduled for 2017. A reseal of the N4 in Dinokana by Actophambili is already underway. The project has a completion date forecast for May 2017 and a cost budgeted at R34-million. Reconstruction work will take place on the…
DetailsWith just days to go before the Easter holiday season traffic exodus gets under way in the Highveld, Bakwena’s N1N4 Control Of Speed By Illusion (COSBI) road safety campaign has become the talking point of social media with its use of metal cut-out Metro Police vehicles. This campaign has already proven itself to be a…
DetailsThe final upgrades of the R160-million project to upgrade plazas by Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessioniare, operator of the N1N4 freeway, will commence along the N4 at the Marikana and Brits Toll plazas between April and October, 2017. The works will see two lanes added at both plazas, one in each direction. Liam Clarke, commercial manager…
DetailsAs part of its billion-rand schedule of rehabilitation and construction projects for 2017, Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire announces it has commenced with a R95 million reconstruction project on the N4 between the towns of Zeerust and Lehurutshe. Road works commenced in February, and will continue through to December 2017. Liam Clarke, Commercial Manager of Bakwena,…
DetailsThe bridge on the N4 that crosses the Groot Marico River in Groot Marico was damaged due to recent storms and rain in the region from December to February. Liam Clarke commercial manager of Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire, operator of the N1N4 toll route, explains that one side of the bridge is damaged. For safety…
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