The Gautrain Management Agency wants to reduce its reliance on a government subsidy and drop ticket prices for certain users in the near future.
Gautrain Management Agency chief operating officer Victor Shange said that the Gautrain could soon be offering more affordable tickets for specific users.
The East-West Commuter line will be extended in both directions, going as far as Boksburg in the east and Cosmo City in the west. However, the Automobile Association of South Africa has emphasised that the system’s fares currently only cater to those with their own cars anyway.The AA has taken particular issue with using billions of rand in Gauteng Provincial Government funding to partially subsidise the system despite its fares being too expensive for many of Gauteng’s working residents.
Shange told MyBroadband that Gautrain’s number one focus would be generating alternative revenue to reduce its reliance on the subsidy.
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