Nightmare start to 2020 for thousands of Cape Town commuters

The City of Cape Town has no time frame for the reintroduction of the N2 express service to Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain from the city centre. The service was suspended in June last year after a quarrel between the shareholders of the N2 Express company, the Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations , the Route 6 Taxi Association and the Golden Arrow Bus Service.

According to the city’s mayoral committee member for transport Felicity Purchase, approximately 4,000 commuters use the service daily. 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”.

He used to spend R450 a month to load his MyCiTi bus card. Now he spends more than R1,000 a month to get to work by taxi. He takes one minibus taxi from Ilitha Park to the Site C taxi rank, then another from Site C to the city centre.

AyandaAllieP MbalulaFikile This is what we sit with every day! It looks like its getting worst, the way we start 2020!!!

AyandaAllieP MbalulaFikile

MbalulaFikile AyandaAllieP; For years now the situation got from bad to worst. The trains are pathetically full. U lucky if u get into a train. U built up a reputation at work as a late comer. Management don't accept excuses. People loose jobs because of Prasa.

Best example of how politicians do not want to know and or do not care about the daily struggles, financially and otherwise, of commuters. Neither the DA (MyCity Bus) nor the ANC (PRASA) seems to grasp the extent of the problem.

They keep burning the trains what did they expect

Their provincial government is busy in Australia 🙄

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