Keeping Cape Town on the rails

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The city’s ambition to run its own railway has been welcomed, but it will need Prasa’s help.

What does it take to run a railroad? A lot of people with a lot of different skills, says Clarissa Beyah of Union Pacific, one of the biggest railway companies in the world, which operates 8,300 locomotives on 50,000km of track across 23 states in the US. Cape Town’s ambition is quite a bit smaller, but the goal is still big.

The city is gearing up for the task of taking charge of its suburban rail network. A feasibility study is already under way. If successful, it would be a light at the end of the tunnel for fed-up commuters, who for years have had to put up with a service dogged by mismanagement and widescale vandalism, compounded by the presence of shacks on some rail tracks...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.

 

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