Taxi owners wary of MyCiTi bus service
2013-03-06 11:05
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2012-10-09 09:20
The MyCiti bus service in Cape Town will be extended to Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain, but some believe the service to the poorer areas will be sub-standard. Watch.WATCH
Cape Town - Minibus taxi owners have reservations about the
implementation of the MyCiTi bus service in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, it was
reported on Wednesday.
According to the Cape Times, the Congress of Democratic Taxi
Associations (Codeta), the only association in the area, was not happy with the
amount of consultation between the City of Cape Town and itself.
Codeta general secretary Cecil Dibela, who is also a taxi
owner, said it did not oppose the service in the area, but was worried about
how the taxi industry would be affected.
"In the last phase, only some taxi associations were
engaged and not all of those affected by that route benefited from that
process. That is why we are sceptical about it," he said.
"The city cannot come and take people's business away.
That is a recipe for conflict."
The N2 Express will reportedly cost R338m to implement in
the next three years with funding from national government.
It will travel directly to Cape Town central from
Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain.
Transport and roads mayoral committee member Brett Herron
said the N2 Express would be a "top-up" to other transport modes.
He said the city was keen to communicate its plan and would
meet Codeta in two weeks.
- SAPA
