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More than a week after route alternatives were sent, residents again reported noisy Checkers Sixty60 delivery bikes passing every few minutes on a Sunday evening, with no response or practical mitigation confirmed.
Residents have shown Checkers Sixty60 two practical route alternatives that could reduce delivery-bike noise immediately: one similar-distance route that avoids many affected homes, and one main-road route that is only marginally longer.
Updated through 7 June 2026: after unanswered route alternatives and another Sunday evening escalation, residents still have no immediate route change or relief timeline.
After another weekend of repeated Checkers Sixty60 delivery-bike noise, residents again raised concerns about loud BigBoy Velocity 150 bikes, stop-street behaviour, missed detections, and public promises that are not changing conditions on the street.
Across partial daytime windows on 23 and 24 May 2026, residents recorded 381 filtered Checkers Sixty60 delivery-bike passes. Missed detections put those windows over 500 likely passes, before unrecorded delivery hours.
On Sunday 17 May 2026, automated detection flagged 205 candidate Checkers Sixty60 passes between 08:00 and 18:00, with missed detections and evening activity meaning the actual day total is likely over 250.
After residents raised the mental-health impact and anxiety caused by repeated Checkers Sixty60 delivery-bike noise, Checkers replied that it is not able to change the route.
After repeated follow-ups, Sixty60 finally replied. They blamed Pingo, denied that alternative routes exist, and said nothing about the bikes. We are now taking the matter to our Ward Councillor.
After renewed formal complaints to Checkers Sixty60 and Pingo, follow-ups and promises of escalation have again been met with silence.
Residents in Durbanville estates are reportedly beginning to prohibit delivery motorbikes, adding pressure on Checkers Sixty60 to rethink noisy residential operations.
By just after 13:00 on Family Day, delivery bikes were already out in force and the street was back to being used as a shortcut.
By 10:30 on Good Friday there had already been roughly 30 Checkers Sixty60 bike passes through a residential shortcut that should have been quiet.
On the evening of 31 March, between 19:10 and 19:25, six Checkers Sixty60 deliveries raced up a residential street again.
Delivery-bike noise surged through the morning, lunch rush, and late afternoon, raising the question of why short routes are still served by loud petrol bikes.
By noon on Wednesday three Checkers Sixty60 delivery bikes had already been seen racing along the residential street again, including one appearing to use the shortcut.
After a weekend dominated by delivery-bike noise, even leaving home failed to provide relief.
The Checkers Sixty60 delivery-bike noise returned from the morning, and by 14:00 it was clear the brief calm was over.
By 08:40 on Friday morning, six Checkers Sixty60 delivery-bike passes had already been counted on this route again.
Residents noticed a marked drop in delivery-bike noise over the last few days, but it is still too early to say whether the change is permanent.
A brief pause in delivery-bike noise showed how much a normal residential morning has changed.
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