December 15, 2025 • 16 mins
Pippa speaks to Brad Armitage, co-founder of the Mission for Inner City CT about their newly launched Inner City Walking Routes Map, which connects safe, intuitive and people-friendly pedestrian routes across the CBD.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to wander the world. And this travel on
Cape Talk is brought to you by Standard Bank. Travel
Book your next trip on the Standard Bank app and
save up to forty percent on your flights. Standard Bank
is an authorized FSP and registered credit provider. Now in
wonder the world Today, we are not hopping on a
plane or even driving long distance. We are exploring on
our own two feet, within our own city, taking a
(00:21):
closer look at a precinc that is right under our noses,
our CBD, just a couple of blocks away from where
we're broadcasting today, are place packed with history and culture,
with noteworthy architect architecture, and with plenty of hidden gems.
But for many people it's a space they've not properly explored,
either because they've just never taken the time to be
(00:42):
tourists in their own backyard, or because they find the
whole city confusing or perhaps intimidating, and don't really know
where to start and where to go next. And I'm
happy to tell you that there is a new nitiative
in place that hopes to change that mindset and set
and say come, we're going to show you how to
move easily through the inner city and discover all its
hidden treasures. I'm talking about the new Inner City Walking
(01:05):
Routes map, which has just recently launched, and it offers
several different pedestrian routes through the central city, allowing people
to explore its places, to connect safely and intuitively on
a really sort of people friendly route. If I can
put it that way, that will help them discover places
that have previously gone unnoticed. And it's a pleasure to
(01:25):
have with us on the line. Brad Armatage, who's the
co founder of the Mission for Inner City Cape Town,
who are the organization behind this map. Brad, thank you
so much for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Welcome, Thanks so for how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm well, thanks and you yeah good.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Thanks a lovely sunny day. Captan more more ready to
extall the.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Street absolutely and brand I know you've got loads and
loads of foreign tourists pouring into town probably doing exactly that,
but we're not so good at doing it as locals.
Is part of the reason for establishing this walking route map,
to encourage more Cape Tonians to explore this precinct.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You have to keep part of the sort of man
it was late at the doorstep of the mission was
to credit or vibrant inner city and a male Hellurth
has been a big part of supporting inner city businesses
and driving foot traffic and making the streets safe for
more inclusive and accessible.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So it's been a.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Big ask for us to really understand why we don't
have that relationship with our inner city. It's a very
walkable inner city. It's sort of fifteen to twenty minutes
from either side, so we were busy exploring how we
can start to change perception around the inner city, and
the walking roots is the starting point.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Brad. I mean you've touched on something the safety of pedestrians.
People are not sure whether it's safe, and the irony
is the more people walk the streets and use the streets,
the more safe they become. The presence of foot traffic,
the presence of extra eyes around you definitely helps to
increase one's feeling of being safe. So it's a kind
of a snowball impact. I guess that you're trying to
(02:56):
start here.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, it's something that they refer to the street ballet.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Right. More people on the streets watching and seeing what's
happening bring safety. But it's also things like lighting and
sort of highlighting pedestrian crossings. I know we have a
big challenge. We have many challenges like most cities that
parking and traffic is on the increase in terms of
(03:22):
city stresses, and it's really about encouraging people to walk
in The more more people walk, the more safeer people
feel walking.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, absolutely, Brad. Before we go any further about the
walking routes, where'd you just explain a little bit more
about mission for any city caped on and who you
are and I mean you've touched a little bit on
the mandate there of making the inner city more vibrant,
but just tell us a little bit more about this work.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
We're a nonprofit that was set up as a partnership
between the city. We work alongside the CCID and the
Lower Garden CID and really where they are responsible from
the city's point of view, it st the larger infrastructural
changes that they're bringing to the city to make it
easier to use.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
From a user.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Friendly point of view, the SIDS are a massive support
in safety and security and the cleaning work that you
see their teams on the street, and where the mission
fits in is really around how we interact with the spaces,
and for us it's like how we make the city cooler.
But generally what it is is sort of highlighting the
(04:31):
existing experiences in the city and encouraging more and working
across elements like seating and greening.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I mentioned lighting.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's been a big part of what you start to
influence now is creating safer spaces with sort of for
stoon lighting.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wayfinding.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Walking routes are part of that process as well. So
we see a lot of tourists typically it used to
be the map a camera around the neck and the
map althout trying to find out and orientate themselves, and
outs on the cell phones. So we're really trying to
look at sort of accentuating what's in our city and
(05:10):
then also adding layers of vibrancy to that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, now we'll talk in a minute about the different
routes and which parts they cover. I just want to
recap for anybody who's come in midway to this conversation
that our guest is Brad Armitage, co founder of the
Mission for Inner City Cape Town, talking to us about
the newly launched Inner City Walking Routes MAP. Now several
different routes laid out sort of roughly a briar street route,
(05:34):
a long street route, a Harrington Square sort of precinct
you've got. Obviously you're going to be bringing a lot
of people in from the waterfront space. Let me head
over to you, Brad, and let you give us a
sort of an overview of what has been created.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Essentially just highlighting the existing routes that are our own
place and not about creating new layers. Part of the
mission's focus is to develop a database that has a
strong foundation of information, and that information seeking process has
(06:11):
led us to understand how people currently use the city. So,
as you mentioned, there's a huge traffic flow between the
inner city and the waterfront that leads down to Northwart Square.
We have some sort of traditional routes out of the
train station and the transportation hub where the buses all meet,
and that kind of leads onto Saint George's and either
left up the company's gardens or down Saint George's towards
(06:33):
the foreshore. And then there's the sort of more entertainment
driven walking routes that lead up onto to Breeze Street
and through the historical and cultural spaces that we have
from Green Market Square all the way through to the Workhoup.
Part of that process it was sort of intuition based.
We've also then spent a lot of time sitting and
watching people and we've now engaged with a more sort
(06:56):
of a formal data collection process. And then the second
part is really the strength of where we feel the
mission for Inner City is kicked off, and that's really
getting Cape Tonians to play a role and participate. As
I mentioned, we're a nonprofit so we like quite heavy
on corporate funding, but part of that is our ability
(07:17):
to draw in sort of non financial contributions and we
were really pleased to announce that the walking route was
one of those interventions. It was a Inner City design
studio called Studio Muti who put up their hand and said, hey,
we love what you guys are doing, We love our city.
How can we get involved? And these are our talents,
(07:39):
So they've really come to the party and helped us
illustrate this this walking map. It is a very simple
map and the empasis here is that its focuses on
walking routes and highlighting the sort of times and the
directions and then beautifully illustrated map so that an intention
would be that that this would either find its way
into the hand of a tourists via a hotel or
(08:01):
someone that's in the city that maybe is looking to
explore on the weekend that you know, you walks the
beaten path that they do on the day to day basis,
but perhaps once to bring the family into the city
and explore and discover, which is a big part of
what the mission is focused on doing as well.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, I'm sure you will love an email just in
from Fiona who's commenting on how much she has been
enjoying the experience of walking the city for the first
time when she comes in for first Thursday. She says
she experiences the city in a completely different way on
foot from how she does driving through it in a car.
And it's such a pertinent point. I mean, you anywhere
in the world, if you walk through a city rather
(08:39):
than bussing or driving through a city, you discover so
much more. Brad. You know, when you're driving or taking
public transport, you're going from destination AID to destination B.
There's a sort of an endpoint that you focused on.
Where's The experience of walking allows you to stop to go, oh,
what's that or a small amazing bread coming out of
a bakery. Here, here's a crafter working on an art
(08:59):
piece that I want to take a look at to
my left. And it's all those opportunities to find the
little guys and the small, interesting, quirky places along the
road that you simply miss entirely if you're in a vehicle, don't.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You one hundred percent? Yeah, I'd said, the idea of
looking up and appreciating where you are. And part of
what we're so proud of is the city that is
definitely walkable. We feel it's walkable, welcoming and wonderful as
our sort of key points, and it's about highlighting what
those things on I think first those days is one
of the things that Cape Tonians know well, we identify
(09:33):
quite well with that experience. And we've we've been now
looking at part of the walking routes process to unpack
other things. So you know, we've just as an example,
done an amazing collaboration with a local artist. Heaven were
who did the Strand Street crossing. If anybody's seen it's
where Strand Streets meets and Georgia's and the idea there
(09:53):
was just to bring some joy and de light into
the space, bring awareness to the pedestrians, and help with
some safety concern around the speed the traffic uses that space.
But these are definitely parts of that yet. So she
interpreted the joy of summer through a daisy pattern and
that will be you can see on the on the
on the two double pedestrian crossing just on a strange
(10:16):
street at Saint George's.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I love that idea of using paint on the road
to draw attention that hey, this is a pedestrian crossing
and hopefully the traffic slows down to admire the artwork
is what is going down for the pedestrians at the
same time. So great idea, Brad. Several times I've used
the term hidden gems. Maybe we should pick out a
couple to just alert listeners to the kind of thing
(10:39):
we're talking about. What what are some of the overlooked
spots that you hope these maps will will will draw
people's attention to.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, firstly, I think our green lung in the city
is such a special space for us for the company's guide,
and it's you know, sort of you know historically one
of the reasons actually exists, but it is an amazing
walking space from the eye which is arch the Snowhead
design and to have initiative at the top of all
the way through to the Dizzy Commuseums. It's a wonderful
(11:09):
space for families, but it's also a great place to
just take a moment and pause during your working day.
And then if you take a walk through Saint George's
up Saint George's down to Green Market Square, there's the
newly reopened doorpose the ez Eco Museum is also open again.
(11:30):
We have two beautiful churches to explore as well as
a Methodist church, and further up on Saint George's George's Cathedral,
which has things like the free concerts program on at
the moment. And then of course there's the other sort
of maybe lesser known walk, but it's a highly traffic walk,
and that's the walk that leads down through Tybold Square
(11:52):
and down to North Warf Square, which is our interface
at the waterfront.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
So maybe not the easiest.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But that route there's five to six different public art
pieces that are discoverable along that space, which is the
Brett Murray through to the Shark sculpture and some others.
So the walking map really highlights just a few of those.
Its intention is not to be a tourist map. It's
definitely more about understanding how small and compact that inner
(12:22):
city is. It really is a fifteen minute city.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, brad Lee asking a fair question, She says, I
take your point that the more people are walking, the
safer it gets. But we've got to get to that
point still, she said, wants to know what does this
encompass in terms of safety for the pedestrians you're encouraging
to use these routes.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I think part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It goes hand in hand with some of the wider
work that the Mission for in the City is doing.
As I mentioned, the big part of that is to
increase our lighting upgrades. So we've done three different lighting
interventions at the moment, one on brief streets, one a
short market, and one Church Lane. And for those that
come in up to the city on a Thursday night
(13:04):
for first Thursday, I'll know that that Church Lane, Church
Street where pedestrianite, the sort of typical art gallery alley,
has just had an upgrade with some incredible lighting, and
we've noticed that lighting interventions tend to reduce more negative
activity on the streets.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
As well as.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Helping people feel more comfortable, and it's a really good
point as well. And just in terms of that lighting,
this is something that we are collaborating with private companies
with its lighthouse. The shout out to them for their
contributions to helping us work on a sort of experimental
and pilot basis. But the hope is that will increase
more of more of that that light, those lighting interventions.
(13:46):
And then I think the ccide's work is also is
very relevant to discuss.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
They have visible.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Policing on the streets and really what this walking route
is doing is encouraging people to use certain routes more
often and thereby flooding the space with activity at light
and foot traffic.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay, right, and closing, Where can listeners get hold of
a copy of the Inner City Walking Roots map.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, if you contact us through our website, we'll be
able to send one to you. But we are a
doing drops. It's a physical map. We're doing drops in
all of the down the Inner City hotels and retail stores.
It's in conjunction with another map, which is more of
a retail map, which we've launched this week, is called
Gift to the Inner city and it's the highlights of
the sort of independent creative retailers in the city. So
(14:33):
any of those from the Books.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Mummywater, Serf Store through to.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Philippa Green, any of the Inner City retailers will have
those maps available. But if you contact us through our websites,
which is intercity dot org so Mission for Incity dot org,
we'll be happy to send one to you or share
the digital map with.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You as well.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Mission for inner City dot Org. Brad Armitage, so great
to have you with us. Thanks for taking the initiative
on this one, and I hope it's going to bear
fruit and see lots more foot feet on the floor
in the Inner City over the coming firstacs and beyond.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you, and I just encourage cap turnings that I
use in the city. Please do tell everybody about it.
Encourage more activity and more people will get down the better.
So thank you very much for the exposure.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Our great pleasure. Brad Armitash, Thank you so much for
joining us this afternoon speaking there on behalf of Mission
for Inner City their website, Mission for InnerCity dot org.
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It's time to wander the world. And this travel on
Cape Talk is brought to you by Standard Bank. Travel
Book your next trip on the Standard Bank app and
save up to forty percent on your flights. Standard Bank
is an authorized FSP and registered credit provider. Now in
wonder the world Today, we are not hopping on a
plane or even driving long distance. We are exploring on
our own two feet, within our own city, taking a
(00:21):
closer look at a precinc that is right under our noses,
our CBD, just a couple of blocks away from where
we're broadcasting today, are place packed with history and culture,
with noteworthy architect architecture, and with plenty of hidden gems.
But for many people it's a space they've not properly explored,
either because they've just never taken the time to be
(00:42):
tourists in their own backyard, or because they find the
whole city confusing or perhaps intimidating, and don't really know
where to start and where to go next. And I'm
happy to tell you that there is a new nitiative
in place that hopes to change that mindset and set
and say come, we're going to show you how to
move easily through the inner city and discover all its
hidden treasures. I'm talking about the new Inner City Walking
(01:05):
Routes map, which has just recently launched, and it offers
several different pedestrian routes through the central city, allowing people
to explore its places, to connect safely and intuitively on
a really sort of people friendly route. If I can
put it that way, that will help them discover places
that have previously gone unnoticed. And it's a pleasure to
(01:25):
have with us on the line. Brad Armatage, who's the
co founder of the Mission for Inner City Cape Town,
who are the organization behind this map. Brad, thank you
so much for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Welcome, Thanks so for how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm well, thanks and you yeah good.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Thanks a lovely sunny day. Captan more more ready to
extall the.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Street absolutely and brand I know you've got loads and
loads of foreign tourists pouring into town probably doing exactly that,
but we're not so good at doing it as locals.
Is part of the reason for establishing this walking route map,
to encourage more Cape Tonians to explore this precinct.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You have to keep part of the sort of man
it was late at the doorstep of the mission was
to credit or vibrant inner city and a male Hellurth
has been a big part of supporting inner city businesses
and driving foot traffic and making the streets safe for
more inclusive and accessible.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So it's been a.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Big ask for us to really understand why we don't
have that relationship with our inner city. It's a very
walkable inner city. It's sort of fifteen to twenty minutes
from either side, so we were busy exploring how we
can start to change perception around the inner city, and
the walking roots is the starting point.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Brad. I mean you've touched on something the safety of pedestrians.
People are not sure whether it's safe, and the irony
is the more people walk the streets and use the streets,
the more safe they become. The presence of foot traffic,
the presence of extra eyes around you definitely helps to
increase one's feeling of being safe. So it's a kind
of a snowball impact. I guess that you're trying to
(02:56):
start here.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, it's something that they refer to the street ballet.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Right. More people on the streets watching and seeing what's
happening bring safety. But it's also things like lighting and
sort of highlighting pedestrian crossings. I know we have a
big challenge. We have many challenges like most cities that
parking and traffic is on the increase in terms of
(03:22):
city stresses, and it's really about encouraging people to walk
in The more more people walk, the more safeer people
feel walking.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, absolutely, Brad. Before we go any further about the
walking routes, where'd you just explain a little bit more
about mission for any city caped on and who you
are and I mean you've touched a little bit on
the mandate there of making the inner city more vibrant,
but just tell us a little bit more about this work.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
We're a nonprofit that was set up as a partnership
between the city. We work alongside the CCID and the
Lower Garden CID and really where they are responsible from
the city's point of view, it st the larger infrastructural
changes that they're bringing to the city to make it
easier to use.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
From a user.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Friendly point of view, the SIDS are a massive support
in safety and security and the cleaning work that you
see their teams on the street, and where the mission
fits in is really around how we interact with the spaces,
and for us it's like how we make the city cooler.
But generally what it is is sort of highlighting the
(04:31):
existing experiences in the city and encouraging more and working
across elements like seating and greening.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I mentioned lighting.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's been a big part of what you start to
influence now is creating safer spaces with sort of for
stoon lighting.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wayfinding.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Walking routes are part of that process as well. So
we see a lot of tourists typically it used to
be the map a camera around the neck and the
map althout trying to find out and orientate themselves, and
outs on the cell phones. So we're really trying to
look at sort of accentuating what's in our city and
(05:10):
then also adding layers of vibrancy to that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, now we'll talk in a minute about the different
routes and which parts they cover. I just want to
recap for anybody who's come in midway to this conversation
that our guest is Brad Armitage, co founder of the
Mission for Inner City Cape Town, talking to us about
the newly launched Inner City Walking Routes MAP. Now several
different routes laid out sort of roughly a briar street route,
(05:34):
a long street route, a Harrington Square sort of precinct
you've got. Obviously you're going to be bringing a lot
of people in from the waterfront space. Let me head
over to you, Brad, and let you give us a
sort of an overview of what has been created.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Essentially just highlighting the existing routes that are our own
place and not about creating new layers. Part of the
mission's focus is to develop a database that has a
strong foundation of information, and that information seeking process has
(06:11):
led us to understand how people currently use the city. So,
as you mentioned, there's a huge traffic flow between the
inner city and the waterfront that leads down to Northwart Square.
We have some sort of traditional routes out of the
train station and the transportation hub where the buses all meet,
and that kind of leads onto Saint George's and either
left up the company's gardens or down Saint George's towards
(06:33):
the foreshore. And then there's the sort of more entertainment
driven walking routes that lead up onto to Breeze Street
and through the historical and cultural spaces that we have
from Green Market Square all the way through to the Workhoup.
Part of that process it was sort of intuition based.
We've also then spent a lot of time sitting and
watching people and we've now engaged with a more sort
(06:56):
of a formal data collection process. And then the second
part is really the strength of where we feel the
mission for Inner City is kicked off, and that's really
getting Cape Tonians to play a role and participate. As
I mentioned, we're a nonprofit so we like quite heavy
on corporate funding, but part of that is our ability
(07:17):
to draw in sort of non financial contributions and we
were really pleased to announce that the walking route was
one of those interventions. It was a Inner City design
studio called Studio Muti who put up their hand and said, hey,
we love what you guys are doing, We love our city.
How can we get involved? And these are our talents,
(07:39):
So they've really come to the party and helped us
illustrate this this walking map. It is a very simple
map and the empasis here is that its focuses on
walking routes and highlighting the sort of times and the
directions and then beautifully illustrated map so that an intention
would be that that this would either find its way
into the hand of a tourists via a hotel or
(08:01):
someone that's in the city that maybe is looking to
explore on the weekend that you know, you walks the
beaten path that they do on the day to day basis,
but perhaps once to bring the family into the city
and explore and discover, which is a big part of
what the mission is focused on doing as well.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, I'm sure you will love an email just in
from Fiona who's commenting on how much she has been
enjoying the experience of walking the city for the first
time when she comes in for first Thursday. She says
she experiences the city in a completely different way on
foot from how she does driving through it in a car.
And it's such a pertinent point. I mean, you anywhere
in the world, if you walk through a city rather
(08:39):
than bussing or driving through a city, you discover so
much more. Brad. You know, when you're driving or taking
public transport, you're going from destination AID to destination B.
There's a sort of an endpoint that you focused on.
Where's The experience of walking allows you to stop to go, oh,
what's that or a small amazing bread coming out of
a bakery. Here, here's a crafter working on an art
(08:59):
piece that I want to take a look at to
my left. And it's all those opportunities to find the
little guys and the small, interesting, quirky places along the
road that you simply miss entirely if you're in a vehicle, don't.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You one hundred percent? Yeah, I'd said, the idea of
looking up and appreciating where you are. And part of
what we're so proud of is the city that is
definitely walkable. We feel it's walkable, welcoming and wonderful as
our sort of key points, and it's about highlighting what
those things on I think first those days is one
of the things that Cape Tonians know well, we identify
(09:33):
quite well with that experience. And we've we've been now
looking at part of the walking routes process to unpack
other things. So you know, we've just as an example,
done an amazing collaboration with a local artist. Heaven were
who did the Strand Street crossing. If anybody's seen it's
where Strand Streets meets and Georgia's and the idea there
(09:53):
was just to bring some joy and de light into
the space, bring awareness to the pedestrians, and help with
some safety concern around the speed the traffic uses that space.
But these are definitely parts of that yet. So she
interpreted the joy of summer through a daisy pattern and
that will be you can see on the on the
on the two double pedestrian crossing just on a strange
(10:16):
street at Saint George's.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I love that idea of using paint on the road
to draw attention that hey, this is a pedestrian crossing
and hopefully the traffic slows down to admire the artwork
is what is going down for the pedestrians at the
same time. So great idea, Brad. Several times I've used
the term hidden gems. Maybe we should pick out a
couple to just alert listeners to the kind of thing
(10:39):
we're talking about. What what are some of the overlooked
spots that you hope these maps will will will draw
people's attention to.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, firstly, I think our green lung in the city
is such a special space for us for the company's guide,
and it's you know, sort of you know historically one
of the reasons actually exists, but it is an amazing
walking space from the eye which is arch the Snowhead
design and to have initiative at the top of all
the way through to the Dizzy Commuseums. It's a wonderful
(11:09):
space for families, but it's also a great place to
just take a moment and pause during your working day.
And then if you take a walk through Saint George's
up Saint George's down to Green Market Square, there's the
newly reopened doorpose the ez Eco Museum is also open again.
(11:30):
We have two beautiful churches to explore as well as
a Methodist church, and further up on Saint George's George's Cathedral,
which has things like the free concerts program on at
the moment. And then of course there's the other sort
of maybe lesser known walk, but it's a highly traffic walk,
and that's the walk that leads down through Tybold Square
(11:52):
and down to North Warf Square, which is our interface
at the waterfront.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
So maybe not the easiest.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But that route there's five to six different public art
pieces that are discoverable along that space, which is the
Brett Murray through to the Shark sculpture and some others.
So the walking map really highlights just a few of those.
Its intention is not to be a tourist map. It's
definitely more about understanding how small and compact that inner
(12:22):
city is. It really is a fifteen minute city.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, brad Lee asking a fair question, She says, I
take your point that the more people are walking, the
safer it gets. But we've got to get to that
point still, she said, wants to know what does this
encompass in terms of safety for the pedestrians you're encouraging
to use these routes.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I think part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It goes hand in hand with some of the wider
work that the Mission for in the City is doing.
As I mentioned, the big part of that is to
increase our lighting upgrades. So we've done three different lighting
interventions at the moment, one on brief streets, one a
short market, and one Church Lane. And for those that
come in up to the city on a Thursday night
(13:04):
for first Thursday, I'll know that that Church Lane, Church
Street where pedestrianite, the sort of typical art gallery alley,
has just had an upgrade with some incredible lighting, and
we've noticed that lighting interventions tend to reduce more negative
activity on the streets.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
As well as.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Helping people feel more comfortable, and it's a really good
point as well. And just in terms of that lighting,
this is something that we are collaborating with private companies
with its lighthouse. The shout out to them for their
contributions to helping us work on a sort of experimental
and pilot basis. But the hope is that will increase
more of more of that that light, those lighting interventions.
(13:46):
And then I think the ccide's work is also is
very relevant to discuss.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
They have visible.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Policing on the streets and really what this walking route
is doing is encouraging people to use certain routes more
often and thereby flooding the space with activity at light
and foot traffic.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay, right, and closing, Where can listeners get hold of
a copy of the Inner City Walking Roots map.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, if you contact us through our website, we'll be
able to send one to you. But we are a
doing drops. It's a physical map. We're doing drops in
all of the down the Inner City hotels and retail stores.
It's in conjunction with another map, which is more of
a retail map, which we've launched this week, is called
Gift to the Inner city and it's the highlights of
the sort of independent creative retailers in the city. So
(14:33):
any of those from the Books.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Mummywater, Serf Store through to.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Philippa Green, any of the Inner City retailers will have
those maps available. But if you contact us through our websites,
which is intercity dot org so Mission for Incity dot org,
we'll be happy to send one to you or share
the digital map with.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You as well.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Mission for inner City dot Org. Brad Armitage, so great
to have you with us. Thanks for taking the initiative
on this one, and I hope it's going to bear
fruit and see lots more foot feet on the floor
in the Inner City over the coming firstacs and beyond.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you, and I just encourage cap turnings that I
use in the city. Please do tell everybody about it.
Encourage more activity and more people will get down the better.
So thank you very much for the exposure.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Our great pleasure. Brad Armitash, Thank you so much for
joining us this afternoon speaking there on behalf of Mission
for Inner City their website, Mission for InnerCity dot org.
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