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Space in Cape Town's downtown core and seaboard is limited, and homes are expensive.
在開普敦市中心和海濱的空間是有限的，而住房又是昂貴的。
So the poor have to travel long distances on increasingly clogged roads.
因此，窮人不得不搬到很遠的交通不便的地方。
Brett Herron, a city councillor on the mayoral committee for transport, says that hard-up households in Cape Town spend on average 40% of their income on transport.
至于交通問題，在市長委員會上，一位市議員布萊特·赫倫(Brett Herron)表示，在開普敦生活拮據的家庭光在交通上的支出就占了他們收入的40%.
There are various tales as to why the highway was never finished.
關于公路為什么沒建完的說法有許多。
Mr Herron says the city was simply waiting for future traffic volumes to require it.
赫倫(Herron)先生表示，他們只是等著今后交通流量需求。
That time came long ago; but now the city says it cannot afford it.
雖然很早就提出要完成這條公路，但到現在市政府依然沒有經費。
Instead, it is turning to private developers.
于是政府將這個問題轉交給了私人開發商。
To sweeten the deal, the city will give the winning developer six hectares of prime land alongside the road.
為了更好的解決這個問題，市政府會給建成這條公路的開發商6公頃公路旁的黃金地段。
The unfinished highway can be completed, knocked down or turned into something else entirely—a park, perhaps.
沒有完工的公路可以選擇完工、拆掉或者轉變成公園等場所。
But proposals must help reduce congestion, while incorporating cheap housing.
然而這些歸根結底都是為了解決交通阻塞問題，這其中也包含廉價住房問題。
Three-dimensional models of six designs—featuring urban gardens, cycle lanes and a promenade—went on display last month for public comment.
這六個三維模型的設計方案中——包含有城市花園，自行車道，散步小路——都在上月的公眾評論中進行了展示。
The city wants construction to begin within the next few years.
該城市想要在接下來的幾年中開始建造。
This is the first of five big projects being undertaken to improve public housing and transport.
這是五個用來提高公共住房和交通問題項目中的第一個項目。
Patricia de Lille, Cape Town's mayor, thinks finishing the highway is what people will remember her for.
凱普敦的市長德里爾，認為公路的完工能讓人們記住她的功績。
Film-makers may have to find a new apocalyptic location.
而制片人也許得找一個新的啟發性拍攝地點了。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
