Chapman's Peak Drive in numbers - some fun and interesting statistical numbers from the drive.
#Chappies in Numbers
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1607 The year Chapman’s Peak got it’s name.
A British ship, “The Consent” was becalmed in Hout Bay. The ship’s pilot, John Chapman, went ashore to search for provisions and recorded the bay as Chapman’s Chaunce, and the mountain became known as Chapman’s Peak -
7 The number of years to complete construction of Chapman’s Peak Drive (1915 – 1922)
- 700 The number of convicts used to build the road from Hout Bay to Noordhoek
- 114 The number of curves in the road
- 35000 The approximate number of cyclists who pass over Chappies in a day during the world’s longest timed cycle race – The Cape Town Cycle Tour.
- R20 The toll fee for a light motor vehicle one direction in 2003 (When #Chappies opened as a toll road)
- R45 The toll fee for a light motor vehicle one direction in 2017
- 60 The number of staff employed by Entilini Operations
- 60 The number of picnic tables along the 9km drive
- 1002 mm The average rainfall per annum on Chapman’s Peak Drive
- 1 006 685 The total number of journeys on Chapman’s Peak Drive in 2016 (highest traffic volumes recorded in one year)
Photo credit: Peter Haarhof, Cape Photo Co
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Address: Toll Plaza, Chapman’s Peak Drive, Hout Bay, Cape Town
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