Integrated transport plans

  1. (1) Transport authorities, core cities and other municipalities required by the MEC to do so, must prepare and submit to the MEC annually by the date determined by the MEC, integrated transport plans which comply with subsection (2) for their respective areas for the five-year period commencing on the first day of that financial year.

(2) The integrated transport plan must formulate the planning authority’s official vision, policy and objectives, consistent with national and provincial policies, due regard being had to any relevant integrated development planning or land development objectives, and must at least—

  1. specify the changes to the planning authority’s land transport policies and strategies since the previous year’s five-year plan;
  2. include a list that must—
    1. show, in order of precedence, the projects and project segments to be carried out in that five-year period, and the cost of each project; and
    2. be prepared with due regard to relevant integrated development plans, and land development objectives set in terms of section 27 of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995 (Act No. 67 of 1995), or, where applicable, in terms of a law of the province;
  3. include all modes and infrastructure, including new or amended roads and commercial developments having an impact on the land transport system, and land transport aspects of airports and harbours;
  4. include the planning authority’s detailed budget, including funding sources, with regard to land transport for the relevant financial year in the format prescribed by the MEC;
  5. include the planning authority’s public transport plan;
  6. set out a general strategy for travel demand management; and
  7. set out a road and transport infrastructure provision, improvement and maintenance strategy;
  8. set out a general strategy or plan for the movement of hazardous substances contemplated in section 2(1) of the Hazardous Substances Act, 1973 (Act No. 15 of 1973), by road along designated routes, in accordance with the strategy or plan in the provincial transport framework contemplated in section 22(3)(l);

(3) An integrated transport plan must be in accordance with requirements and in the manner and form as the Minister may prescribe in consultation with the MECs, but the MEC may prescribe the content of integrated transport plans in addition to such requirements.

(4) The plan must by the date so determined be submitted to the MEC for approval, which approval must relate only to the matters mentioned in section 24(4)(b).

(5) A person may not transport hazardous substances contemplated in section 2(1) of the Hazardous Substances Act, 1973 (Act No. 15 of 1973), in the area of a planning authority, except on a route determined under paragraph (h) of subsection (2), where such a route has been determined and published under section 29(1), and any person who does so is guilty of an offence.