Abstract: This project explores the social, affective, and spatialdimensions of public transport interchanges through an ethnographic and art-basedstudy of the Mowbray Interchange in Cape Town. Moving beyond dominant planningand policy frameworks that frame transit primarily in terms of efficiency, mobility, andsafety, the study foreground practices of waiting, stillness, and relationship-buildingwithin a space designed for movement. Through participant observation, interviews,and artistic interventions such as crocheting and drawing, the thesis reveals howcommuters, workers, and informal actors co-produce “bubbles of security” and carein a fragmented, post-apartheid city. The Mowbray Interchange emerges not merelyas an infrastructural node but as a social living space, challenging prevailingvocabularies of transit and offering different ways of imagining public transportationin unequal urban contexts.