It’s not every day that I blog about news, in fact I have tried to avoid it since the re-launch of “Only in South Africa” and focus, on puns intended, on photography. There are days I feel like sharing thoughts and today the urge has won over my better judgment.
Rea vaya Bus Rapid Transit System is most probably one of the cornerstone of a new era in a dismal, near non-existent public transport in South Africa, in theory it is a cheap, fast, safe and reliable means of transportation to and from major population centres. The first of these was launched today between Johannesburg and Soweto and thus creating a new way to travel between home and work that has been monopolised by the local communal taxi industry. An industry who believes itself above the law and whom government has done nothing against until today.
In short, Rea vaya Bus Rapid Transit System is probably the most significant project towards a safer South African urban road network ever.
Read more about it here:
- http://www.reavaya.org.za/
- http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/5dc6cd2643d7434ba48e125f52624c1d/30-08-2009-10-13/Rea_vaya_BRT_
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