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Sunday Tribune reports that an eThekwini municipal spokesperson said last week that the city’s new rapid transport system, Go!Durban, would go live in September, but the taxi association say it won’t, until the city has resolved differences with them.
The multibillion-rand rapid transport project has been hampered by delays and interruptions as a result of ongoing disputes between the city and the local taxi association. Go!Durban was announced in 2013 as an initiative to bring relief to about 600,000 local commuters once completed. The integrated bus transport system is aimed at linking areas north, west and south of Durban to the city. Last week, Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu revealed that close to R3bn had been spent on the Go!Durban project and that the municipality was paying even when work was not done and the project was delayed. Shortly thereafter, the municipality announced that the Go!Durban first phase, a bus route between Pinetown and KwaMashu, would go live in two months’ time. But, Mathula Mkhize of the SA National Taxi Council for Durban West said they were unhappy about how the city was handling their issues. He explained: “The city has not fully explained how it will compensate taxi owners whose businesses have suffered as a result of the project. We are confused that while we still have unresolved issues the city made this announcement that the project will be completed in two months’ time.” Mkhize said they would not allow the project to go live until all the disputes were settled.
- Read the full original of Siboniso Mngadi’s report on the above story at Sunday Tribune
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