The Department of Transport will probe the allocation of R2 million given to the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) the Saturday Star reported today. The department gave the council the funds in order to host national road shows to explain the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system to it’s members. According to the report, this…
Author: Nneka Njoku
A communication breakdown between the City of Cape Town and the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has crippled the consultation process around the Integrated Rapid Transport (IRT) system, with both parties admitting that talks may have run into a brick wall. Santaco said it was not consulted during the formulation of the project and…
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) bus and coach divisional manager Jan Aichinger has lowered his forecast for the 2009 bus market from the 3 000 units he expected last year, to between 1 700 and 2 000 units. “The tenders for the various bus rapid transit (BRT) systems and government’s 2010 FIFA World Cup tender are…
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa—“Suddenly a pair of bright headlights appeared around a corner. It was a taxi speeding directly towards us, on our side of the road.” Michelle Strydom, on the Facebook group Genoeg is Genoeg (Enough is Enough, in Afrikaans) “He collided with us head-on with such force that it shot his windscreen…
TAXI operators have threatened to bring the entire country to a halt with a strike lasting more than a week if their demands are not met. Bus commuters were beaten and at least one bus driver was shot yesterday before angry, striking taxi drivers and their bosses handed a list of their demands to the…
Leader who transformed city from congested to ‘car free’ speaks about ‘Urban Happiness’ on April 3rd
(Boulder, Colo.) – The man who is credited with transforming Bogotá, Colombia, from a congested, deteriorated city into one filled with sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, parks – and even a weekly “car free” day – will give a free afternoon talk in Boulder on Friday, April 3. Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá,…
By noon, the throng were waiting for officials from the Department of Transport and the African National Congress and intended handing over a memorandum of their grievances. A taxi driver said that busses were going to get a special traffic lane and that taxi’s would not be included. “In a bus you only have one…
Discharging firearms, disrupting traffic and attacks on businesses were “completely unacceptable”, the office of Gauteng Premier Paul Mashatile said in a statement after a meeting of the executive council. “The programme to improve the transport system in Gauteng will not be delayed by these protests,” it read. “The process will go ahead as planned and…
The memorandum was handed to African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe by Ralph Jones, national spokesperson for the United Taxi Association Forum (UTAF), at Library Gardens, Johannesburg, this afternoon. It lists the industry’s grievances regarding the bus rapid transit (BRT) system. These include job losses and lack of participation in the planning process….