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GroundUp reports that a year after the chairperson of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) promised to set aside women-and-children-only train carriages on Cape Town's Metrorail, the project appears to have been abandoned.
In June 2018, recently appointed chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama committed to implementing coaches for women and children. She indicated: "I said I will sponsor that type of project. In Women's Month, we will sign terms of reference that say this is how we are going to proceed to implement." But Prasa spokesperson Nana Zenani recently told GroundUp that there were additional issues with Metrorail that needed to be attended to first. She cited the general shortage of usable train carriages and a lack of security officials to guard them. While civil society group #UniteBehind continues to include special carriages as part of its rail safety demands, the organisation recognises that there may be bigger problems with Cape Town's trains. The organisation’s Zukie Vuka pointed out that asking Prasa to prioritise women-only carriages could take attention away from overcrowding, which might be a greater threat to commuter safety at the present time.
- Read the full original of the above GroundUp report by Drew Wayland and Mary-Anne Gontsana at News24
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