Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Target Kloof


One of the main suburbs of Port Elizabeth is Walmer. In the early days, it was a seperate village with its own Town Hall, but it has long since been absorbed into the PE Metropole.
Because much of the coastal part of the city is built on a series of sandstone hills, bisected by fairly steep river valleys (known locally as kloofs from the Afrikaans, and pronounced more or less clue-if, with the two syllables flowing together) the main arterial links between parts of the city had to be constructed in or across these valleys.
One of the main ones linking Walmer to the city is Target Kloof, a long winding road that has a pretty bad track record of road accidents. It seems PE motoricts can't resist speeding around the sweeping s-bends, and taking street lamps and traffic lights with them!! (You can see an example of this here!)
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2008 at 2:11 PM

    Except for driving on the wrong side of the road, this could be almost anywhere in Ohio where I live. The sky is just as blue, the side hills are sandstone or limestone as we call it here and the highway looks similar, except most of our drivers have a desire to cross over and smash headon into oncoming traffic. For that reason, our highways have a barrier down the center to keep people on their own sides of the road.

    It is a nice photograph.

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  2. sonia a. mascaroJanuary 8, 2008 at 3:20 PM

    The speeding is also a problem in many Brazilian's roads.

    Love the blue sky!

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  3. AndreaJanuary 8, 2008 at 9:25 PM

    Is the road to the right a ramp to get onto the main road? Pretty scenery.

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  4. quintarantinoJanuary 8, 2008 at 11:55 PM

    My good friend, I guess speeding is a problem everywhere. Try coming to Portugal.
    As Andrea sai, pretty scenery.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2008 at 4:06 PM

    Why are there two lanes on one side and only one on the other?

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  6. samJanuary 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM

    Abraham, Sonia and Q, LOL, sounds like the only nation in the world where people really behave themselves on the road is Australia!
    Andrea and Clarice, hi, no, the road is a dual carriageway, so the road to the right is for the traffic coming the other way (remember we travel on the left hand side of the road.) C, if you look closely, you will see that there are also 2 lanes on that side.

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  7. MartinApril 12, 2011 at 11:40 AM

    Does anyone out there know how Target Kloof got its name?

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