After two years negotiating with the local minibus taxi industry, the City of Cape Town is now helping prepare taxi drivers to become the first bus drivers for the IRT system. The City is working in partnership with Volvo, the company providing the IRT buses, and Transpeninsula Investments, the operating company running IRT bus services for the World Cup, to train 130 new bus drivers for this purpose. The World Cup IRT service will comprise bus services between the large IRT station at the … [Read more...]
Walking Reality
26 February, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For Cape Town's IRT system to work, it must be easy for regular passengers to get from their home to an IRT bus station. Once commuters arrive at their destination station it must also be easy to get to wherever they have business. With this in mind, a key element of Cape Town's new Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) public transport system is the transformation of areas along its routes and around its stations into pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods. [ad#Google Adsense 125x125 Blog Post]In … [Read more...]
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Statement by Executive Mayor Dan Plato: IRT cost escalation not due to maladministration
9 November, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The cost escalations in the IRT project are not due to any corruption, financial maladministration or fraud. The problem resides in an initial significant underestimation of project costs. The problems that have arisen are due to inadequate project management and reporting of cost escalations. Significant corrective interventions were carried out as soon as problems became apparent to bring the project back on track. Due to the checks and balances within the City’s administration, as … [Read more...]
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