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The stadium precinct has been specifically designed to be active 365 days a year, featuring a dynamic entertainment node with retail space, restaurants, an amphitheatre, a cable car and the People’s Park - a landscaped green space for all residents to enjoy Durban’s transport infrastructure is being upgraded for 2010 and beyond, ensuring that the city’s visitors and residents are afforded efficient transport facilities and effective accessibility and locomotion in and around the city centre The city is currently being revamped, with existing street furniture, signage and lighting being renewed, sidewalks resurfaced and additional foliage planted
Durban’s new Moses Mabhida Stadium has been designed as a state-of-the-art, world-class stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, and as a multi-functional, hard-working and easy-tomaintain asset for Durban. This is an asset from which every resident and ratepayer will benefit, as the creation of this precinct means that Durban will be one of the few African cities able to host most of the Olympic disciplines within a single sporting precinct. Conveniently situated close to the city centre, and as part of the Kings Park Sporting Precinct, the Moses Mabhida Stadium will also be the ideal venue for hosting recreational and cultural events.
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The entire stadium has been designed and built in line with all the latest safety and security requirements. Over three million hours of work have been carried out to date More than 139 000 tonnes of concrete have been poured Almost 7000 tonnes of steel reinforcement have been used Over 7512 jobs have been created The stadium infield has been designed and built in accordance with the latest international sporting codes. It will have the capacity to hold 70 000 spectators during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ South Africa and 54 000 in legacy mode thereafter. Each seat will be spacious and will have excellent site lines and ease of access is ensured, with 50% of the stadiums seats accessible from the main entrance level.150 suites, housing a total of 7500 seats, will cover a range of different hospitality options. The grand centre arch, 106m high, will become a world first tourist attraction, thanks to a high-tech cable car designed to take visitors up to its highest point, where they can disembark and take in breathtaking, panoramic views of the city. This 350m long free-span steel arch weighs 2600 tons. The roof, consisting of Teflon coated glass fibre membranes - 46,000 square metres in total – is attached to the arch by 95mm diameter steel cables. Around the perimeter of the stadium structure is an 880m long steel compression ring that maintains the structure of the roof. On big match days, Walter Gilbert Road will be closed to traffic, creating a safe pedestrian precinct. Durban’s People Mover bus will stop at the stadium, allowing spectators to park at one of the many parking facilities in town and get to the stadium safely and quickly. A new Kings Park Railway Station is being developed adjacent to the stadium, allowing visitors direct access to the stadium precinct.
For more information about the Moses Mabhida Stadium you can go to the official website www.mosesmabhidastadium.co.za or use the contact numbers listed below.