Keep Left
Pavements, promenades and mountain trails. One habit for every shared path in the city — and the same one on the road.
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Walk left. Pass right.
One habit for every shared path in the city
Walk left, pass right. On the Sea Point promenade, up Lion's Head, along the Contour Path and every pavement in between, so walkers, runners, prams, dogs and cyclists flow past each other instead of into each other.
The same habit works on the road — cruise left, pass right, wave the taxi in. Cape Town is an outdoor city that keeps colliding with itself. Keep Left is the fix, and it is free.
When people sit in the right lane at the same speed as the traffic beside them, everything behind them stacks up. There is no new lane coming. What we have is how we use the ones that are there — on the mountain, on the promenade, and on the M3.
You cannot rebuild the city's paths. You can be one of the people who makes them kinder, every single day.
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Eight ways to keep left
Pavements, trails and roads. None of these cost you more than a few seconds. All of them are felt by everyone sharing the path.
Walk left, pass right
On every shared path in the city, so walkers, runners, prams, dogs and cyclists flow past each other instead of into each other.
The promenade, the mountain, the pavement
Sea Point, Lion's Head, the Contour Path, and every pavement in between. One habit. Every shared path.
Cruise left on the road
If nobody is in front of you, you are in the right lane for the wrong reason. Move over.
Pass, then move back
The right lane is a lane you visit, not one you live in. Overtake and return.
Wave the taxi in
A gap costs you three seconds and saves someone their whole morning. The same courtesy that works on a trail works on the N2.
Zip merge at roadworks
Both lanes to the cone, then alternate. Racing to the front is what causes the standstill.
Don't block the box
When the robots are out, leave the intersection clear. Gridlock is a choice forty people make together.
Indicate, every time
It is free, it is on the stalk next to your hand, and it prevents most of the colliding this outdoor city does with itself.
Take the pledge
“I will walk left, pass right, cruise left on the road, and give the person sharing the path a break.”
No email needed. Just a decision you make before you step onto the promenade — or pull out of the driveway — tomorrow.
Put it on your window or your wall
Free to download, free to print, free to hand out at your next street meeting.
Three things people say, and the short answer
“It's a promenade, not a highway.”
Walk left, pass right is how walkers, runners, prams, dogs and cyclists share one path without colliding. Same habit. Every shared path in the city.
“But I'm already doing the speed limit.”
The right lane is not a speed award. If nobody is in front of you, you belong on the left, whatever your speedometer says.
“One person won't change the N1.”
One person in the wrong place holds up forty. That works in reverse too, which is the entire point of this page. Keep Left is the fix, and it is free.