Comments on: Knysna is as special as always /blogs/beezus/2015/03/29/knysna-is-as-special-as-always/ Exploring South Africa with a Pomchi Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Lesley Blaine /blogs/beezus/2015/03/29/knysna-is-as-special-as-always/#comment-998 Lesley Blaine Tue, 19 May 2015 19:03:03 +0000 /blogs/beezus/?p=880#comment-998 Hope Loyalty and Invention- being the end product of necessity, will save this absolute gem of a waterway town. Long may she live. Bravo Knysna !

]]> By: Martin Hatchuel /blogs/beezus/2015/03/29/knysna-is-as-special-as-always/#comment-997 Martin Hatchuel Tue, 19 May 2015 11:33:41 +0000 /blogs/beezus/?p=880#comment-997 Mostly agree with you, Carl: But as a local: the Knysna Mall. Tsk, tsk. It was a terribly bad idea to let all those small, quirky shops and workshops disappear in favour of the kind of indoor, sanitised, marginalising, globalised monster they’ve built there. It’s pretty much killed the Main Street, far as I can see. If the city fathers (why are they ALWAYS fathers?) had put their foot down, we could have had a pedestrian-friendly development. I mean, they even allowed the developers to build right up to the boundary on three sides of the monstrosity, so the streets to the sides (but ok, not Main Street) appear to have got narrower. And that bleak, endless, high facade at the back has really ruined those smaller thoroughfares. It is a typical example of what happens when town planning decisions are made only on the basis of the rates and taxes, with not even a dip of the hat to the humanity of it all.

But it’s still a lekker town. See here: https://youtu.be/9M1q2v6GPW4 – you can even do a spot of birding from the comfort of your car!

And it’s Beezus-friendly, too. ¡Muy importante!

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