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IOL reports that after three years of terminated service, MyCiti’s N2 Express service is set to resume later this month.
The fleet of 34 buses, which will connect Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha and the Cape Town CBD, are undergoing their final mechanical checks before roadworthy testing and licensing prior to the official relaunch of the service. Cape Town’s Mayco Member for Urban Mobility, Rob Quintas, visited the depot on Tuesday. Some 6,000 commuters from historically disadvantaged areas of Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha are set to benefit from the resumption of the service later this month, the exact date of which has yet to be determined and announced by Quintas. The fleet of buses are owned by Cape Town’s local government, however, they are managed and maintained by the N2 Company, which will operate the N2 Express route. For three years commuters were without the service after contracts were not renewed in 2019 due to a dispute among the route’s taxi industry shareholders. However, the City of Cape Town signed a new contract this year with the N2 Company, which is equally owned between taxi associations Lisekhonikamva from Khayelitsha, Route 6 from Mitchells Plain, and also bus company Golden Arrow. The signing of the contract has been described as a major achievement and vital for the return of the buses to Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha, which are located approximately 27-36km from Cape Town’s CBD.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Crispin Adriaanse at IOL
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