Roads 4 U
Car Talk with Jacob Moshokoa · 22 May 2026 · 12m
Speaker 1: It is car Talk on Cape Talk. Now listen to this. The Western Cape government's Speaker 1: Department of Infrastructure has officially launched a new mobile app called Roads for You. It's Speaker 1: aimed at making it easier for the public to report road related problems directly from Speaker 1: their smartphones. It's available on both Android and iOS. The app also allows residents to Speaker 1: report issues such as potholes, damaged road surfaces, faulty traffic lights, and faded road signs, Speaker 1: with the exact GPS location automatically attached to each report. And this is for improved Speaker 1: accuracy and faster response time. Roads for You is designed to improve communication between road Speaker 1: users and authorities by automatically directing reports to the correct road authority, whether that's the Speaker 1: City of Cape Town Central or any other agency. We now chat to Director of Speaker 1: Operational Support at the Department of Infrastructure, Yandre Baker, to explain more. Yandre, A very Speaker 1: good evening to you, sir, and welcome to Kartalk. Speaker 2: Good evening, Jacob, and thank you for having me. Always a pleasure to chat. Speaker 1: Tell me something youngerly, What inspired this Department of Infrastructure to develop the Roads for Speaker 1: You app and what problems is it aiming to solve for everyday people like us. Speaker 2: Well, the honest answer, Jacob is frustration, and not just answers a department. The frustration Speaker 2: I hear from my neighbors, from my colleagues, people in the queue at the coffee Speaker 2: shop. Someone spots a pothole that's been there for weeks and wants to report it. Speaker 2: But the first question is who do I even call? Do I phone a municipality, Speaker…
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