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EWN reports that the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) says Capetonians will have full train services running on its busy Central Line from next month.
The Central Line was brought to its knees by illegal occupation of railway tracks and infrastructure vandalism just before the Covid-19 pandemic. It was the busiest train corridor in the Western Cape, transporting more than 600,000 passengers daily during peak times. Prasa Regional Manager Raymond Maseko gave an update on the recovery of this corridor at the launch of Mobility Month in Cape Town on Wednesday. He indicated that out of the 21 train stations on the Central Line, only Lentegeur, Mitchells Plain, and Kapteinsklip did not have train access.
"These three stations we will be testing the first trains now in October, then we will write to our regulator to come and do the test and come and check whether we have recovered the line to the appropriate standard. But Capetonians will start utilising trains from the Mitchells Plain side in November of this year," Maseko advised. He added that this would conclude the trains and stations recovery programme for the Western Cape.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Ntuthuzelo Nene at EWN
- Read too, Mitchells Plain railway corridor restoration at final stages, at Cape Argus
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