By noon, the shortcut was clearly back

Date: 25 March 2026

On Wednesday, 25 March 2026, I got back from the store at around noon and personally saw three of the loud Checkers Sixty60 bikes racing up and down my street.

One of them was approaching from outside the neighbourhood, which strongly suggested the residential shortcut use had returned. That was supposed to be the first obvious improvement. It now looks as if we were wrong to think it had been fixed.

The anxiety is back at full strength

The anxiety is right back at its peak again. So is the feeling that nothing meaningful has been done.

From what I observed today, there also appears to be yet another BigBoy bike in the fleet, with a number plate I had not previously logged. The situation does not look like it is stabilising. It looks like it is expanding.

How is this allowed?

At this point, I genuinely struggle to understand how this level of repetitive noise can continue with so little meaningful intervention. The City of Cape Town has a noise nuisance by-law that prohibits a person in a public place from causing or permitting a disturbance by making loud or persistent noise or sound.

Yet despite repeated complaints, I have not seen meaningful action from the City against this ongoing disturbance. If an ordinary resident rode a loud bike up and down one street all day, I have little doubt that complaints would pile up quickly and that the resident would be taken to task. When a corporation effectively creates the same repeated disturbance through a delivery fleet, the response appears far slower and far weaker. From where I stand, that feels like a double standard.

This is becoming impossible to accept

Checkers Sixty60 continues to use loud BigBoy bikes on residential routes even after repeated complaints, escalation attempts, and clear evidence of the impact on residents. It is becoming harder and harder to believe this problem is being treated in good faith.

This pattern is not getting better. It is getting worse, and it is becoming harder not to feel that the worsening is being tolerated with full knowledge of what it is doing to the people living here.