Government’s performance in transport has been particularly poor during the recent decade
Transport economist Vaughan Mostert has been a long time supporter of public transport, and I agree with his general approach as expounded recently in his letter . However, I
As a professional engineer I am one of many who pointed out many years ago that the Gautrain project, while an excellently built piece of infrastructure, has not done much to assist the public transport needs of the poor. An earlier proposal for a rail-based public transport system termed “Masstran”, proposed many decades ago by engineers in the Department of Transport, had four times the penetration of Gauteng into areas where the poorer people lived, at half the cost in real rand values.
We seem to lack perceptive, sound and rational thinkers in transport matters among the political elite, as well as — with one or two exceptions I know of — in the professional staff of the current department of transport. Perhaps they are not strongly enough imbued with the ability to tell the politicians the story as it really is.
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