The Citizen reports that the City of Cape Town’s transport directorate will receive R300 million in grant funding from the government of the Netherlands over the next five to ten years, to improve public transport for commuters from two of the city’s townships, Khayelitsha and Nyanga.
An agreement called the Orio Project was signed on Thursday in a collaboration between the Dutch government and the City. It will see the rollout of MyCiTi bus service between Khayelitsha and Wynberg and Claremont. “The importance of this funding from the Dutch Government cannot be overstated in times of economic hardship and where municipalities are forced to do more with less,” said the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a statement. According to the statement, the project, which dates back to 2012, will involve new bus stops and stations in Khayelitsha, as well as the improvement of ones in Nolungile, Vuyani, and Nyanga.
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