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Cape Argus reports that the City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate has received the go-ahead to conduct a detailed feasibility study on the metropolitan rail function.
Speaking during a council meeting held on Thursday, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis disclosed that the national government, through Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, had shown support for the devolution of the metropolitan rail function to the City. “I am very pleased to announce here today that the City of Cape Town is now ready to proceed with a detailed feasibility study for the devolution of the metropolitan rail function to this metro,” Hill-Lewis stated. The City has already issued a tender for the study, and work is expected to begin as soon as July this year Hill-Lewis went on to note that the national government’s rail service had reached a crisis point in Cape Town, with just 33 operational train sets in 2020 compared to 95 train sets in 1995. In response to the announcement, DA Interim Provincial Leader Tertuis Simmers said that the party was delighted with the news of the study and was looking forward to the work that would soon begin to get trains in Cape Town up and running again. When asked for comment, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) said since this was a policy issue it would will leave it up to the national Transport Department to comment.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nomalanga Tshuma at Cape Argus
- Read too, Cape Town says its bid to take rail management from Prasa just got a big boost, at Fin24
- As well as, Godongwana backs Cape Town study into running city’s trains, at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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