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Era 4: Further extensions and planned extensions of Boyes Drive 1929 – present

This story would incomplete without a brief review of the subsequent development of the Drive.

 On 27 September 1932 the Cape Town City Council informed the Kalk Bay – Muizenberg

Ratepayers Association that the proposed extension around Trappies Kop of 1929 had been
“put in abeyance for the time being”. In 1936 the City Council enquired of the Divisional

Council whether they would be interested in extending Boyes Drive northwards were the

Council to extend it up to the DCC boundary at Westlake. The Divisional Council replied
that they had other more important priorities to deal with and so nothing was done. This was,

after all, the era of the Great Depression.

 A City Council report of 20 November 1945 noted the problem of traffic flow towards and

away from False Bay, and especially the congestion at the intersection of Atlantic and Main
Road Muizenberg. Boyes Drive was said to provide little relief as a by-pass because of its

poor connection to Main Road between Muizenberg and Lakeside. To become an effective
by-pass and relieve the Muizenberg – St. James section of Main Road two pieces of

construction were proposed: first, a 160 ft wide road linking Prince George’s Drive westward

to Main Road, and second an eastward 160 ft wide extension of Boyes Drive to meet this new
road at its junction with Main Road. The cost would be £77,000.

 On 29 April 1947 Council adopted the City Engineer’s report detailing the northward

extension of Boyes Drive to Lakeside. Its southward extension to Fish Hoek awaited the
completion of a contour survey. By 6 February 1950 the City Council was in contact with

Fish Hoek municipality regarding the proposed southward extension from Loch Road to

Clovelly in order to relieve congestion along Main Road.

 On 29 May 1947 Boyes Drive, together with many others on the Peninsula (De Waal, Ring

Road in Table Valley, Ocean View, High Level Road Sea Point, Kloof Road, Camps Bay
Drive, Berea Drive, and Victoria Drive) was declared a Scenic Drive. This designation placed

restrictions on the heights of buildings, walls, fences and gates along these roads in order to

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