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Sunday Independent reports that thousands of commuters will have to wait for at least another month to board passenger trains.
Providing details of public transport operations and travel during alert level 3 of the national lockdown, which starts on Monday, Transport Minister Fikile said that through ongoing engagements and evaluation of the state of readiness of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), it had been concluded that Prasa was not ready to resume with the Metrorail commuter service. He indicated that Prasa had revised its target of resuming operations to 1 July and only in respect of four routes, namely Pretoria to Pienaarspoort, Cape Town to Simon’s Town, East London to Berlin and Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage. However, long-distance trains would remain prohibited. Mbalula also announced the lifting of time restrictions on all road-based public transport modes. But capacity limits would remain - minibus-taxis would remain at 70% loading capacity, buses at 50% (taking into account standing passengers) and e-hailing, metered taxis, shuttle, chauffeur and charter services at 50%. Domestic business air travel will resume on Monday, but strictly for business purposes.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Loyiso Sidimba at Sunday Independent
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