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The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) will award the contracts for the rehab of the M4 Uthongathi bridge and N2 Umhlali River bridge soon. Building on the Umhlali River bridge is expected to take 4 months and on construction on the Uthongathi bridge two months.

Work has started on the Msikaba bridge deck, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) reports, noting that it took three trucks to transport the first steel bridge deck segment in three sections from Middelburg, in Mpumalanga, and three to five hours to offload each segment at the construction site, near Lusikisiki, in the Eastern Cape. The 580 m Msikaba bridge will cross the 195 m deep Msikaba river gorge and, once completed, will be the longest span cable-stayed suspension bridge in South Africa and the second longest in Africa after the 680 m Maputo-Catembe bridge, in Mozambique.

The City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate is piloting underground chambers for the safe storage of traffic signal controllers and undisturbed power supply (UPS) systems at crossways vulnerable to vandalism and theft. Two chambers– or prefabricated underground energy manholes– have been set up at a crossway in Belhar..