Transport

Riding in the bus lane

THE dedicated drivers at Metrobus say they love their jobs, especially when their buses are full. Perhaps it's time to take a bus to work; it is, after all, Public Transport Month.

Children welcome transport mascot

SCHOOLCHILDREN named the department of transport's new mascot, designed to teach road safety to pedestrians.

First-class train trip to Soweto

TO mark Public Transport Month, City councillors took the smart Soweto Business Express to Soweto for lunch.

Grid-locks and safety top the agenda

THE provincial government is looking at ways of easing traffic congestion on Gauteng's roads as part of its efforts during Public Transport Month.

Learners' safety tops agenda

THE safety of schoolchildren on the road is the focus of the City's Public Transport Month campaigns, with discussions planned exploring ways of ensuring children are safe on our roads.

Mama Sisulu gets her own highway

THE BUSY airport road has been renamed in honour of Albertina Sisulu, a stalwart of the struggle and a leading warrior in the battle for women's emancipation.

Take a smooth ride into work

THE SOWETO Business Express takes half the time to get from the township to Park Station as regular trains, efficiently delivering its smartly dressed commuters to the working day.

Digging Gautrain holes in Wolmarans

ROADS around Park Station will be temporarily diverted as the next phase of the Gautrain development gets under way.

Taxi operators take up scrap offer

THE national Taxi Recapitalisation Programme is moving ahead in Gauteng, where over a thousand applications have been received to have old taxis scrapped. Almost all operators have also applied for route-based operating licences.

Gautrain R5,8bn spent so far

WHILE work is slightly behind schedule, construction of the Gautrain is racing on. Jobs are being created, shafts are being sunk and tunnels are being bored.

Upgrades planned for busy roads

BILLIONS of rand have been set aside for a wide-ranging project to improve the road network across the province, with highways leading to Joburg getting the lion's share.

Luxury Soweto train on track

THE Soweto Business Express train service is up and running, with first-class service for Sowetans on the move.

Metrobus fares are set to rise 10%

PREPARE for 1 July price hikes: tariffs go up, with monthly and weekly bus tickets rising 10 percent and single tickets increasing four percent.

Website makes paying fines easy

Payfine, the new website launched by Joburg's metro police, makes checking your traffic fines - and paying them - a doddle.

Gautrain - progress is on track

Work is steaming ahead on the Gautrain rapid rail link, with construction already taking place at Park Station and in Rosebank, Sandton and Marlboro.

Transport to get a major shake-up

Months of discussions between stakeholders led to a draft transportation charter, with plans to improve transport in Joburg. The finer details were thrashed out at the Inner City Summit at the weekend.

Gautrain moves a step closer

The first sod should be turned on the Gautrain by April, with the premier saying an agreement with the preferred bidder, Bombela Consortium, has been wrapped up.