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document.write("<h5>cape town trains</h5>");
document.write("when i think about it, getting more people to work on time cheaply makes sense (more productive, more cash to spend elsewhere than on government-owned services).<br /><br />so who is the city planning genius that made sure pretoria doesn't have passenger trains?. freddy");
document.write("<h5>The taxi drivers will be happy, right?</h5>");
document.write("The roads are public ...belong to everybody. But when the criminal gangsters that pass for taxi driver owners set up their routes, the road then belongs only to THEM. So South Africa's citizens are denied cheap public transport. These guys are barbarians. Lock them up and confiscate theri taxis when they cause trouble. That's all they will understand.. gerald");
document.write("<h5>public transport</h5>");
document.write("I come to Cape Town now for about 14 years. And unfortunately nothing has changed in the public transport. Just take one example: Table view to the City. It would be very possible to take a reasonable priced transport system, like a Tram and construct 2 lanes in the middle of the road from the city all the way to Melkbos. Build some park and ride spaces in between. Nothing fancy, plain and simple. <br />It is rally sad to hear that buying 2000 buses and a few trains means that something is done. This is a joke. Buying buses and trains is something you have to do anyways. This is normal maintenance. Building tracks building stations thats what I call action. I saw some pictures of a great tram line between the city and camps bay. Why not rebuilding? Trams are relatively cheap and relatively simple to maintain. <br />Then to the article: Just because you install some monitoring and fancy traffic management center does not mean that anything changes. These are the typical political phrases which I am really tiered of in any country.<br />Monitoring, monitor what? People drilling their nose when they are in the traffic jam?. wolf");
document.write("<h5>Public transport</h5>");
document.write("A reliable public transport system will be such an asset to our country. It will however, require all the role players to commit and to buy in.  The goverment need to be able to promise a crime free safe enviroment in which us as South Africans will be able to commute, and us as the public need to commit to support the system and in the same breath relieve congestion and carbon emissions on our roads. . Marzanne");
document.write("<h5>BRT? IRT? Nice dreams</h5>");
document.write("BRT or IRT, including busses, trains and planes, will definitely not be available all over the whole of Gauteng by the end of 2010. Even 2015 seems unreachable. The many efforts put in for soccer fans, which will apparently be around half a million pair of feet, lasting for 6 - 8 weeks, will not be nowhere near enough to serve all of Gauteng afterwards. Never mind all of the rest of South Africa.<br />However, I will like to see it happen very dearly, as I am one of those who coomuted to work by train, leaving my car at the station nearest my home. But the new SA with all its crime and corruption, put a quick stop to it. The parking spaces at local train stations are now empty, compared to overflowing about 12 years ago.<br />A lot more money have to be put into public transport, to enable one to use it for regular commuting. All the current efforts are only temporary, and for soccer tourists only. The Gautrain will also be completed only by 2013, not 2010 as one often sees in the media. Only a short section betweeen the airport and Sandton \"may\" be fully operational by early 2010 for soccer tourists.<br /><br />What is promising, are the new Business class trains which were introduced recently between Pretoria/Jhb and Strand/Cape Town. But how long will it last, and how many would-be commuters does it serve?. Jo");
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