The Red Hot Chili Peppers will perform at the Cape Town Stadium on Tuesday, 5 February 2013. An extensive public transport plan has been put in place to assist concert-goers in getting to and from the event.
The gates will open at 17:00 on the day of the concert. The supporting act is due to perform at 19:45 and the main performance is scheduled to run from 21:00 to 23:00.
“The City estimates that 45 000 people will attend the concert, so our best advice to concert-goers is to arrive early, make use of public transport if possible and avoid peak hour traffic,” said Councillor Grant Pascoe, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events and Marketing.
The following arrangements have been made:
No parking will be available at or near the Stadium. Concert ticket-holders are encouraged to:
- Use public transport to get to the MyCiTi Civic Centre bus station and catch the free event shuttle to the Stadium
- Park in the City Bowl and use the free event shuttle to the Stadium
- Park at the VA Waterfront and walk to the Stadium
- from Cape Town to Fish Hoek at 23:45 and 00:00
- from Cape Town to Bellville (via Monte Vista) at 23:45 and 00:00
- from Cape Town to Strand (via Goodwood) – at 00:00
- The first bus will depart the Civic Centre Station at 17:00 and will run until 21:00
- A skeleton service will run every 15 minutes during the event from 21:00 to 23:00
- The return shuttle runs again from 23:00 and last bus departs the Stadium at 00:15
Hout Bay service
- The first bus departs Kronendal at 17:00 and the last bus departs at 19:30
- The first return bus departs from York Road at 23:15 and the last bus departs at 00:15
- There will be no service between 19:30 and 23:15
UCT service
- The first bus departs UCT at 17:00 and the last bus departs at 19:30
- The first return bus departs the Civic Centre station at 23:30 and the last bus departs at 00:30
- There will be no service between 19:30 and 23:30
Table View
All transport to the event will run on the normal scheduled service and must be paid for with a myconnect card.
- After the event, the first bus will depart the Civic Centre station at 23:30 and the last bus will depart at 00:30. Buses will travel at 30-minute intervals
- The bus will only stop at Lagoon Beach, Woodbridge, Milnerton, Racecourse, Sunset Beach and Table View stations. If a passenger needs to disembark at any other station they need to alert the driver by pressing the button as they approach their stop
- Table View feeder services will be in operation from 00:30 with the last feeder bus departing from Table View station at 01:00
- These services are provided free of charge on presentation of a valid concert ticket stub
Gardens
All transport to the event will run on the normal scheduled service and must be paid for with a myconnect card.
- The first bus after the event departs the Civic Centre station at 23:30 and the last bus departs at 00:30. Buses will travel at 30-minute intervals
- These services are provided free of charge on presentation of a valid concert ticket stub
PLEASE NOTE: Ratanga Junction will NOT be operational.
- The VA Waterfront has approximately 3 500 parking bays available to the general public
- There is a charge associated with this parking, and traffic flows into and out of the VA Waterfront may be congested
People with disabilities
- Dedicated parking has been allocated on DF Malan Drive for those concertgoers with disabilities who wish to use the Stadium shuttle. Only people with an official disability permit from the City will be allowed to park in this dedicated parking area
- Ticket holders must formally request access to the parking bays dedicated to people with disabilities by sending an e-mail to Mike Lord at mike@alliancesafety.co.za
- Concertgoers will have to provide evidence that they are entitled to these parking bays by clearly displaying the full-colour Vehicle Access Permit (VAP) on their dashboard when entering the parking area (P5) on Vlei Road. Failure to display the VAP will result in access being denied
- Enquiries regarding the limited parking available within the Stadium for people with disabilities must be e-mailed to Mike Lord at mike@alliancesafety.co.za
- Parking for people with disabilities is issued at the discretion of the event organiser and is subject to availability
Drop-and-Go
Attendees may be dropped off and collected at the following appropriately sign-posted locations. Parking tariffs will apply until 17:00 when on-street parking becomes free of charge.
- in DF Malan Drive opposite the Artscape Theatre
- in the embayment off Helen Suzman Boulevard (city-bound carriageway) between Vlei Road and the elevated traffic circle at Granger Bay Boulevard
- on-street in the CBD (on-street parking is available within the CBD, but no additional security will be provided)
- Part of the road will be open to normal vehicular traffic
- Pedestrians are urged to use the sidewalk and the dedicated lane to the underpass at Green Point Circle
V A Waterfront
- This route is via Granger Bay Boulevard
- Pedestrians are urged to avoid Portswood Road as the pedestrian walkways along that route are restricted
