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Cape Town gets a go-ahead for a study to take over the rail function

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City of Cape Town mayor said the rail service run by PRASA has reached a crisis point in Cape Town, with just 33 operational train sets in 2020 compared to 95 trains sets in 1995.

The City of Cape Town is now ready to go ahead with a detailed feasibility study for the takeover of the metropolitan rail function to the metro.

He said the rail service run by PRASA has reached a crisis point in Cape Town, with just 33 operational train sets in 2020 compared to 95 trains sets in 1995. He said ​​PRASA reported to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament Standing Committee on Transport and Public Works about its rail service in this province. “It was revealed that In June 2019, Prasa was operating 444 train trips on a weekday in Cape Town, in early 2020, this had dropped to 270 daily trips, and that this year there are no more than 153 train trips across the city on a weekday, a 66% reduction in availability of the service,” he said.

He said a letter from the Minister of Finance this week not only gives them a green light to conduct the passenger rail feasibility study, but fully endorses their intended policy direction in favour of devolution of this critical function.

 

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