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Lower-risk driving routes in Mossel Bay

Mossel Bay is the first Garden Route town on the map. Coverage is the whole municipality rather than just the town: from Gouritsmond in the west, through Mossel Bay itself and the N2, to Great Brak River in the east and Herbertsdale inland. Every part of it has been rated against the police stations that actually serve it.

58risk zones mapped
10in the top band at midday
16in the top band after dark

What the data looks like here

58 mapped areas across Mossel Bay.

Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. Here is how Mossel Bay’s 58 areas fall across the bands at each of those hours.

Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. No area in the country is rated worse by day than it is at night, so the night bar is also the worst case.

  • Daytime05:00 to 17:30 17%
  • Evening17:30 to 19:30 21%
  • Night19:30 to 05:00 28%

The right-hand figure is the share of Mossel Bay’s mapped areas sitting in the highest band at that hour.

  • Highest avoided by default on the strictest setting
  • Elevated always costed, avoided on the strictest setting
  • Caution costed but never avoided, since it is too widespread to route around
  • No penalty checked and carries no routing cost
View as table
Mossel Bay: mapped areas by risk band, for each time of day
Time of dayHighestElevatedCautionNo penalty
Daytime10162012
Evening12151912
Night1613209

Driving here

What matters on Mossel Bay’s roads

  • The N2 runs across the top of the town and carries most of the through-traffic on the Garden Route. It is rated along its whole length here, separately for each time of day.
  • The R328 toward Oudtshoorn and the coastal roads to the Point, Hartenbos and Great Brak River are all mapped.
  • Holiday traffic changes the picture. A road that is quiet in winter is busy and full of unfamiliar drivers in December, so the map covers the roads visitors use as well as the ones locals do.

Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.

Questions

Common questions about Mossel Bay

Does coverage include Hartenbos and Great Brak River?

Yes. The mapped area is the full municipality, so Hartenbos, Little Brak, Great Brak River and Gouritsmond are all inside it.

Is the N2 through Mossel Bay treated as a freeway?

It is mapped end to end and rated for each time of day. It is not given a blanket protective rating the way the big-city freeways are, because it passes close to town for part of its length.

Also mapped

Other metros

Johannesburg Gauteng 800 zones Cape Town Western Cape 909 zones Pretoria Gauteng 486 zones Ekurhuleni Gauteng 732 zones West Rand Gauteng 130 zones Secunda Mpumalanga 63 zones Stellenbosch Western Cape 32 zones Rustenburg North West 98 zones Pilanesberg North West 43 zones Durban KwaZulu-Natal 791 zones Gqeberha Eastern Cape 254 zones

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