It’s a nightmare start to 2020 for thousands of long-suffering Cape Town commuters, with Metrorail’s Central Line and the MyCiTi N2 bus service still suspended — and no sign that the services will be restored soon.
Luyanda Mtamzeli from Ilitha Park in Khayelitsha used the MyCiTi bus service to get to work in Cape Town. He said he had heard rumours about the reason for the suspension “but I do not know what the truth is”. Meanwhile the Southern and Northern Metrorail lines are not working properly and service on the Central line to Kapteinsklip and Chris Hani stations has been suspended since last October due to vandalism between Bonteheuwel and Nyanga. Only the Lavistown branch of the line is running. The Central line runs from Cape Town to Langa where routes branch to Mitchell’s Plain, Chris Hani/ Kapteinsklip and Lavistown. The Lavistown route passes through Belhar and ends in Bellville.
Scott said ticket sales showed that on the Central line there were about 23,000 daily weekday trips to Cape Town from Kapteinsklip, and 25,000 from Khayelitsha. He said Khayelitsha commuters were now spending between R30 and R50 on a single taxi trip to Cape Town — roughly R1,200 a month — instead of R190 a month for a Metro ticket or R420 for a Metro Plus ticket. A Metro weekly ticket costs R65, Metro Plus R135. A single trip on a Metro carriage is R10. It’s R16 on a Metroplus carriage.
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